Slackware vs the others

[Brian Cluff]

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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