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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