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Date:      Mon, 13 May 1996 17:39:28 -0700
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Mystery freezes 2.1R 
Message-ID:  <199605140039.RAA02245@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 1996 09:31:09 %2B1000." <Pine.BSI.3.91.960514092348.23306A-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au> 

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> > > My 2.1R system is suffering from frequent virtual terminal, console and X 
> > > freezes. (about every half hour) I dont think the whole system is freezing, 

> > That's not nice.  :-(  Is there some specific program you're running that 
> > causes the crash?  
> 
> I dont know - nothing obvious - it has happened once when I was not 
> running X, which up until that point had been a suspect. I have been 
> running pppd each time - but as I said, it still seems to be running. 
> This is why I was hoping something would turn up in the logs.

I wish I could point to something, but nothing sticks out.

> 
> > Have you tried telnetting into the machine and checked 
> > systat -pigs, ps ax, top, etc. for a program that's hogging the CPU?  
> 
> I only have one computer, so I cant try to telnet in to see if anything 
> is happening.

Oh well.  My box's keyboard occaisionally locks up, so I telnet in from my 
laptop and shut it down.

> 
> >Does the same problem occur in other OSs (DOS, for instance)?  
> 
> No, I have been using DOS/windows a lot lately (because of this problem), 
> and it is fine.

Ok, it's not specifically hardware then.

> > > The system is a 486DX2-66 noname with AMI BIOS, Soundblaster-16 + Creative 
> > > 2XCDROM, 2 x IDE conner 420MB hard disks, 12MB Ram, 1MB Trident SVGA, mouse 
> > > systems mouse. It is running stock 2.1R everything, and has Linux emulation 
> > > compiled in.
> > > 
> > > In which logs should I look, what should I look for, and is there some 
> > > sort of extended logging I should turn on to try and sort this out ? 



Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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