| Stephen Gran on 17 Nov 2004 23:20:03 -0000 |
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 05:58:46PM -0500, eric@lucii.org said: > I've been having an occasional problem with my main Linux workstation. It > appears to freeze and I have to reboot to get it operational again. This > happens rarely (once or twice a week) but is _real_ annoying. Today, I > noticed that when it "froze" the mouse still worked. Now, since the > keyboard is dead, I cannot "ctrl-alt-del", "ctrl-alt-backspace" or even > "ctrl-alt-FX" to a VC and kill off X. This time, I remembered I had a VNC > server running so I connected to it from my laptop. Violia! it worked! > > I was able to kill X (sudo kill -9 pid) and log back in to the system. > > I'm now contemplating 2 things: > > 1. why it freezes. I always seem to be running Firefox so perhaps it's > contributing? It's a new video card (BFG Tech with Nvidia chip) so perhaps > that's it. This is a pain. A freeze is usually X, and it's usually the video card - start there. > 2. What can I examine from the VNC session and see why a process is "hung"? > I have examined the /var/log/messages file and have not detected any > "smoking gun" entry. Output of top, free, vmstat - get an idea of whether your system is actually hung (clearly not really, if vnc works) or just has a really high load, or if it's just a hung xsession. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | The eagle may soar, but the weasel | | steve@lobefin.net | never gets sucked into a jet engine. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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