Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 16:04:31 -0100 From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: bkogawa@primenet.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice for diagnosing X hangs / kernel hangs? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980330160430.0070f3f0@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de>
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At 23:22 29.03.98 -0800, you wrote: >On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: >> I'm looking for advice on how to diagnose the causes of hangs (no >> keyboard, no mouse, music which was playing stops, no disk activity) that >> happen to me occassionally under X. >Odd. Are you running a SCSI-system with many devices on the SCSI-bus ? Malte Lance malte@webmore.com > >> Since it does not seem to be a kernel panic (/var/log/messages is silent >> when they happen) I am looking for ideas on how to diagnose this problem >> more fully. > >I would suggest running a serial console to another computer or dumb >terminal via null modem cable and see if you can crash the system. Any >panic output will appear there (when the panic happens it goes to the >console which you can't see because you're in X). > >I would also check top or systat -pigs and make sure no process is going >bananas. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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