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03-10-2005, 07:08 AM
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Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Slackware 10.2
Posts: 213
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System Crashes
For the last week I have been facing wired thing, my system would just crash out of nothing, I haven't installed any software neither a hardware, today I was browsing the net and after downloading divx codec my system just crashed and I had to press the little button in order to restart.
1. What can I do to fix this problem?
2. Is there any command in order to see which application is not responding and end it, such as Ctrl + ALT + Del for windows.
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03-10-2005, 07:18 AM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Netherlands
Distribution: Debian Unstable
Posts: 61
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if you can... get into a terminal window or console
type: top and look at the process which is eating your cpu (if it is cpu related) and kill it afterwards
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03-10-2005, 07:27 AM
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Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Slackware 10.2
Posts: 213
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This is what I have, when the crash happens I cant get to my Terminal Program too.
Code:
top - 15:24:48 up 5 min, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.17, 0.09
Tasks: 59 total, 2 running, 57 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 66.7% user, 33.3% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 126300k total, 121836k used, 4464k free, 5336k buffers
Swap: 1004020k total, 0k used, 1004020k free, 53984k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2474 root 14 0 1044 1044 824 R 99.9 0.8 0:00.14 top
1 root 8 0 228 228 200 S 0.0 0.2 0:04.10 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 kswapd
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdflush
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kupdated
10 root -1 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mdrecoveryd
11 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
42 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
43 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kjournald
44 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
66 root 9 0 596 596 516 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.06 syslogd
69 root 9 0 448 448 396 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.02 klogd
129 root 9 0 304 304 264 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 udevd
203 root 9 0 520 520 460 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.00 dhcpcd
252 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
2255 root 9 0 512 512 460 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.00 inetd
2259 root 9 0 1516 1516 1260 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.17 sshd
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03-10-2005, 10:29 AM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Solaris, Linux Fedora Core 6
Posts: 170
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Re: System Crashes
Quote:
Originally posted by amer_58
For the last week I have been facing wired thing, my system would just crash out of nothing, I haven't installed any software neither a hardware, today I was browsing the net and after downloading divx codec my system just crashed and I had to press the little button in order to restart.
1. What can I do to fix this problem?
2. Is there any command in order to see which application is not responding and end it, such as Ctrl + ALT + Del for windows.
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Ctrl + ALT + Del will force a reboot. This is better than hitting the BRS ("Big Red Switch" -- a reference to the large paddle shaped switch on the original IBM PC.)
This is less drastic: Get into a terminal window and type "xkill". Your cursor will change shape. Put the cursor into the hung window and click.
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03-10-2005, 12:22 PM
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Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Slackware 10.2
Posts: 213
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Thanks wpn146 as I have said when my system crashes I cant even move the mouse so I wont be able to access my terminal, however the problem seems to be little General but even my self I don't know what is causing it, there is enough ram so the problem could be a hardware issue....
Thanks to all.
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03-11-2005, 01:31 PM
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Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Slackware 10.2
Posts: 213
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I have just found the problem, its all from firefox I have tried reinstalling it but it wont work, However I am using Konqueror and its running perfect.
Thanks guys.
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