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

[David Puryear <dayear codenet net>]

Are you running esd? If so, you might try without it. On mine, esd locks my
system up really good, have to use cold boot.:( Gnome runs fine without esd.

hth,
David

On 04-Mar-99 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.  
> 
> System Specs:
> 
> Intel Pentium II 300, Asus P2B, 128M RAM
> Redhat 5.2 (w/ all updates), Kernel 2.0.36
> XFree86 3.3.3.1.  Gnome 1.0.0  Enlightenment version that shipped with
> Gnome 1.0.0 RPMs
> "Kumppa" Screen Saver
> 
> 
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