Re: Dell and RH6.2

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:22:03 -0500 (CDT) dave brett <dbrett tcn net>
imparted to us:

>I have a rh 6.2 box which will stop responding and not leave any
>indication of a problem ain any logs.  I was talking somebody else and
he
>has a Dell box running rh6.2 and it is doing exactly the same thing for
>him as well.
>
>When I say it stops responding, I  mean, the console will not respond,
>telnet will not respond, none of the applications can get out the
>ethernet, but appear to be running.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas what is going on?

Not sure here, but I used to have problems with various software that
caused similar things:

xscreensaver using some of the graphic-intensive modules
medusa and nautilus on gnome
some of the kde screensavers
star office

Once I changed video boards most of the problems stopped for me. But, I
still rpm -e medusa and nautilus if they accidentally get installed
because I don't trust them (i.e. they still caused problems last time I
tried them).

The xscreensaver modules were intermittent in the first place and it
took a long time to track down the ones causing problems. I also had
some (rare) problems with gnome in general causing lockups, but that
hasn't happened in awhile and disappeared even before I changed video
boards and after helix gnome was released. All of the others were still
happening on into 7.0 for me before they stopped.

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