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" 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 >> >> -- >> "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if >> I’m not there, I carry on as usual." >> >> Patrick Moore >> >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >