[NTLUG:Discuss] system crash

[Koren, Peter A.]

Yes, I have had this happen with Netscape running without StarOffice even
installed. If you are quick enough, you can ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X.
But if you wait too long, you might not get ctrl-alt-backspace to work, nor
get any keyboard or mouse click response. This happens to me with Netscape
all too often and with Suse, RedHat, and Mandrake.

I sure hope Mozilla will be better.

-- Peter Koren


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sandfort [mailto:sandfort at post.cis.smu.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 8:50 AM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] system crash



I had something like this happen a couple of months ago. I had changed an 
"innocuous" setting in Netscape (home page change, or something like that), 
tried to go to a new URL and suddenly paging like there's no tomorrow.
Attempts to get another console failed, since the shell would get locked up
immediately after login/password. About every minute or so, I'd get a
message
about init() in console 1. A ctrl-alt-backspace in X finally killed off
this rogue behavior, but I never did figure out exactly what happened
(i.e., have been unable to replicate the behavior). I chalked it up to
alpha/linux weirdness, but maybe the problem was really Netscape. I have 
had far fewer problems with 4.7 than I did with the Digital Unix 3.x ECOFF
binary I was running at the time.

 Mike

Michael T. Sandfort                           Phone:  214-768-3856       
Department of Economics                       Fax:    214-768-1821
Southern Methodist University

On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Peter Koren wrote:

> I just had a system crash and it is not the first time.
> 
> I'm running Suse 6.3 and I was running netscape and StarOffice when the
> disk drive suddenly started furious activity that did not stop. I could
> not get another shell to work and could not get to the console. I had to
> shut off the power.
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Koren
>