Re: Complete system crash... possibly Gnome-related.

[Craig Kelley <ink inconnu isu edu>]

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Tod Liebeck wrote:

> I have a relatively fresh install of RedHat 5.2 with the new Gnome "1.0"
> release.  I left to go to lunch.  When I came back, my screensaver was
> frozen.  I left basically nothing running on the system.  I could ping
> it.  I could telnet to it, but it would never bring up a login prompt
> (or any other messages).  It looked as if it had used up all its memory
> (128 MB + 64 MB swap) and croaked.  I had to reset it.
> 
> The system lies behind a firewall, is made of all name brand components,
> and has never crashed before.  It has all the RH updates applied. 
> Yesterday afternoon I uninstalled all my 0.99.8 Gnome RPMs (along with
> the config files in my home directory, etc) and upgraded to 1.0....
> seemed to work fine.  I had just setup the screensaver a few hours
> earlier.  
> 
> I'm not saying Gnome did this (I hope it didn't).  But I think that this
> is Gnome-related.  I've been running Gnome since 0.99.0 on various
> systems and have never seen anything like this before.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.  

The 'use power management' in the control center is on by default now.
Try unsetting that and see if you still have problems.

The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley  -- kellcrai@isu.edu
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