I'd say the standard trouble shooting questions would be a good place to start. What was the last thing you did before the problem started, Any recent changes, etc... After that try looking at what processes are running up to the time of the crash. Try stopping them one at a time, maybe you'll find a culprit. Have you been keeping your packages up to date? Look through Red Hat's errata page and look for descriptions similar to what's happening on your system. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh73-errata-bugfixes.html This is the best I can offer... Bart -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Victor Odhner Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 8:18 AM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: RH 7.3 Locking Up - Help! No response from the list after some 35 hours. I'm still twisting in the wind with this one. Any ideas, anyone? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RH 7.3 Locking Up - Help! Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:55:22 -0700 From: Victor Odhner Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Hi, folks. I need some diagnostic tips here. Tonight I have found that I can no longer work under RH 7.3 on my dual-boot system. It keeps locking up, very early into each session, whether working in X or at the console prompt. Win98SE is running fine. I think I'm always hitting the disk when it happens. The mouse and keyboard stop responding to all input, and the reset button is the only way out. X is running in every case, but I can hang it without even logging onto X, instead working in a console window. In that case, my lockups generally happen when I CD to a different volume, or once when I tried to mount one. In many cases this is a VFAT or FAT-32 volume, because I have all my Win98 volumes mounted. I'm running three IDE drives. Because I had to shut it off rudely, I ran the "File System Integrity Check" which went through all my mounted volumes. The Linux volumes are Ext3. I also went over to Windows and ran Scandisk on all three physical drives, though not on all partitions. No sign of disk trouble. I'm guessing some sort of kernel corruption. I have very, very little time to tinker with the system, so this is killing me. Ideas on how I can diagnose this? I'm thinking that installing RH 8.0 might possibly overcome the problem. That's a very Redmondian Voodoo approach, but I have no ideas at this point. I sent this as a separate follow-up message: Note -- I just ran in single-user mode to save my work over to a Windows partition, and there was no problem with that session: cd, mount -a, editing on fstab, all went fine. Vic http://members.cox.net/vodhner/ -- or -- http://www.newearth.org/~victor/resume.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss