Re: Crash Tracing

Gordon Chaffee (chaffee@CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:44:55 -0800


Graffiti writes:
> I've been having some problems with 2.1.6x. I keep the system
> up and go off to work, school, etc. Sometimes, I come back to a blank
> screen. The system seems to have crashed completely, and nothing works
> except the reset button on my case.
> Nothing shows up in my logs, and I'm not doing anything really
> strange (and it's probably not an attack over the network, since I'm
> demand-dialing out).

Do you have APM (automatic power management) enabled? I saw very similar
behavior when I had it enabled. After disabling it, I haven't had any
of these lockups.

- Gordon