I have RH 7.2 running(download version). About a week ago, is started to hang, while I was surfing the net. Until then, I had no problems. I'm guessing it's my CPU, but I wont swear. If you encountered this before, let me know.

I've seen this a few times on Red Hat 7.1 running Netscape.
I was using a DSL line. I had to open a terminal and kill netscape
and everything started working again.

Syed

i had th e same problem, system just freeze. I don't think the casue is a particular program because it happen pretty randomly..

change to slack afterwards and now everything is fine....

when it hangs, do you have to reboot or is it just the browser that hangs ? if you can't do anything in X, can you perform a ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X and to restart it ?

It hangs everything I run in X, nothing will work. After a 1/2 hour, maybe it will restart, but no sooner.

To limit it to hardware or not, what's the video card? Also, if you leave it in runlevel 3, i.e. with X not running, does this lockup happen at all? Is there anything wrong with the other hardware of the box. I was having a hell of a time with a dualie PPro machine for a month until I realized the CPU fans weren't spinning.

Is this thing an athlon with an AGP card? There's a now infamous memory paging bug associated with that combo, but usually there's a hard slowdown before it strikes.

Basically, what are the specs on the crate, front to back and did this happen under any other OS?

Luck,

Finegan