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<font face="Comic Sans MS">This machine had ssh installed. When I
say it locked up, it locked up. Nothing worked. Ssh wouldn't
work. Http wouldn't work. It just stopped responding to
anything.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/07/2013 07:05 PM, Stephen wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">This is why I always install ssh even on a desktop I
intend to use in the same room. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2013 5:57 PM, "Brian Cluff"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com">brian@snaptek.com</a>>
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Just curious; are you sure that it was actually locking up?
It might be that something was making the X server become
unresponsive, but the machine, as a whole, was just fine.<br>
Recently my machine was "locking up" a lot, but it would only
do it when I was listing to music. It turned out that there
is a bug in Amarok that if it tries to play an MP3 file that
has 0 size. that it would crash, and it turns out that if it
crashes after the screen has blanked that things go bonkers
and nothing responds.<br>
<br>
...but it turns out that I could still ssh into my machine
from another computer and investigate what was broken. Turns
out that when I went to recover a bunch of MP3 files from some
CDs that were about 20 years old that when it couldn't recover
the file it just wrote out the name of the file with nothing
in it.<br>
<br>
In any case, I've found that Linux almost never locks up, it
just becomes unresponsive from the desktop, to the point that
CTRL+ALT+F1 won't ever do anything for you, but ssh/telnet
will almost always get you into the machine and let you
identify and kill what is causing the problem.<br>
<br>
The only reason I mention this is that is you find that
Slackware won't do it for you in the long run, there may be
hope in getting one of your previous distros to work for you.<br>
<br>
Brian Cluff<br>
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On 01/07/2013 02:42 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:<br>
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Some of you might remember of the last few months me posting
about my<br>
system locking up running linux. This last Saturday marked
my system<br>
running slackware for a whole week without locking up once.
Before this<br>
I had tried Kubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora and Centos.<br>
<br>
I'm guessing Slackware has something the other distros I've
tried don't<br>
or the others have something Slackware doesn't. There has
to be some<br>
difference. Any ideas what it is?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
Derek<br>
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--<br>
"I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries
page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual."<br>
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Patrick Moore<br>
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