Re: [Sheflug] Odd Problem

[Ted <ted [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 26 January 2005 3:47 pm, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 15:04 +0000, Ted wrote:
> > On this box I have a couple of hdds..I have suse 9.1 and ubuntu on hdb
> > both using 2.6 kernel.....If I boot from the suse grub into ubuntu the
> > box freezes completely between 2 and 30 minutes..If I boot suse it
> > freezes within 5 minutes...I can run memtest with no problem on either
> > distros..
>
> Ick.
>
> If you do 'cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq' and see a 1, you can use the
> SysRq key to try and coax extra life out of a dying box. You press
> Alt-SysRq and then a letter, to do something:
>
> h - help  :) Shows you what your kernel supports
> m - dump memory info
> t - dump task info
> u - attempt to remount filesystems read-only
>
> I would suggest trying to see if one of the tasks has frozen; that might
> be a good clue to the problem.
>
> I can't really believe that a choice of a different grub would solve the
> problem; at best, it sounds like something is either being masked, or
> the Libranet grub setup isn't tickling something the suse setup is. I
> don't suppose you have the relevant grub setup files from both, and have
> you compared them?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
>

I cannot do this as there is no k/board response..I get mouse movement but 
clicking on a kde gui has no response...I  pasted the suse and ubuntu grub
entries into the Linbranet grub and after either of these distros freeze I 
mount the partition in Libranet and look for error messages but nothing 
shows.......
-- 
Regards
  Ted Wager


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