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.
On 01/07/2013 07:05 PM, Stephen wrote:
>
> This is why I always install ssh even on a desktop I intend to use in
> the same room.
>
> On Jan 7, 2013 5:57 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian@snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> wrote:
>
> 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.
> 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.
>
> ...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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 01/07/2013 02:42 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
>
> Some of you might remember of the last few months me posting
> about my
> system locking up running linux. This last Saturday marked my
> system
> running slackware for a whole week without locking up once.
> Before this
> I had tried Kubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora and Centos.
>
> I'm guessing Slackware has something the other distros I've
> tried don't
> or the others have something Slackware doesn't. There has to
> be some
> difference. Any ideas what it is?
>
> Thanks
> Derek
>
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>
> Patrick Moore
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