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[PLUG] Re: Unexplained system restarts - maybe the screensaver ?
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Right on the money !
I first lamented:
Recently (since the last apt-get udate & apt-get upgrade) my debian/sarge
PC has been crashing (rebooting) from screensaver mode. This happens if
I leave the monitor on and stop all activity on the 'puter. First, the
screensaver starts up, but after a while it times out and the animations
stop. The crashes seem to happen some time after that. This is a new
occurrence, and has taken place several times in the last two or three
days.
To which Chad ventured:
Just for sh**s & giggles, try removing the KVM / monitor sharing
switch in between. Plug the keyboard/monitor/mouse directly into
the PC and restart it. Let the SS come on and see if it crashes.
I have seen some bad KVM switches cause unexpected failures in
systems before. More often then not, it was with buying one on the
cheap side.
That did it. I stopped the PC and unplugged the mouse from the KVM
switch and reattached it directly to the PC. So far, the system has
run several hours OK. The Smoothwall doesn't need a mouse, as it's
run in terminal mode or through a web interface.
It's a Belkin switch; whether it's a cheepie or not, I dunno. I do know
that Belkin hasn't replied to a question about this switch and its
incompatibility with another PC, also running debian/sarge ...
I tried the mouse first because a couple of times I was in the process
of picking up the mouse in order to get it out of the way of another
mouse sharing the same pad when a couple of earlier crashes occurred.
After a while, I'll try unplugging everything and re-upping it, to
see if it's just a dirty-connection problem. It had been running
for over a year.
Thanks !
George
George Langford
george@georgesbasement.com
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