On Thursday 26 August 2004 13:17, Rikard Johnels wrote: > Hi all! > > Tried a fresh install of 9.1 today (for the third time) > No frills, just a clean from scratch install of the standard system. > And i've gotten the same problem EVERYTIME! > > KDE locks up randomly after a few minutes. > > No keyboard, no network no nothing but the button-on-the-front can unluck > it. I cant seem to find the answer to why or what causes the lockup. > Thought it to be YAS, but even if i dont run it it locks. > Thought it was a number of other things, none applied. > It just wont run. > It looses keyboard, CAPS and NUM toggles, but you cant shift to another > terminal to kill X, and you cant even bail out with ctrl-alt-backspace. YOu > cant access the box via keyboard at all. > It also kills network connections, i cant ping let alone ssh to the box as > it hangs. > > What am i to do??? You can try Magic SysRq keys. SysRq-B reboots. If it does that, then machine still services interrupts. May be useful: tErm (SysRq-E): TERM all tasks kIll: KILL all tasks showPc: get current stacktrace showTasks: get all processes' stacktraces If any of the above works, you have starting point to dig deeper. -- vda ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.