Hi all I am having a problem with Slack V11.
I have had V10.1 & 10.2 installed onto my PC & both have worked OK.
I installed V11 onto a new partition & have had it lock up a few time
for no reason.
The last time was at 4:30 in the morning while I was asleep!
V11 seems to work fine with no problem, I installed it & got everything
working fine (thanks Pat for a good job).
I have had a look at the log files & nothing is showing up, I had
Kontct, Gaim & VMware running at the time.
Can anyone shed any light onto the problem or can you point to anywhere
I should look.

Thanks Lez

google@lesorton.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
> Hi all I am having a problem with Slack V11.
> I have had V10.1 & 10.2 installed onto my PC & both have worked OK.
> I installed V11 onto a new partition & have had it lock up a few time
> for no reason.
> The last time was at 4:30 in the morning while I was asleep!
> V11 seems to work fine with no problem, I installed it & got everything
> working fine (thanks Pat for a good job).
> I have had a look at the log files & nothing is showing up, I had
> Kontct, Gaim & VMware running at the time.
> Can anyone shed any light onto the problem or can you point to anywhere
> I should look.
>
> Thanks Lez

If there is truly absolutely nothing in the log files. . . I'd run
some diagnostics on the HD. I was having a similiar problem, and found
a bad HD, without ANY messages anywhere indicating HD failure.

What complicated more, is that it would occur every night, at around
the same time, and at about the time that my nightly cron jobs kick of
( I think 4:59, I'm not in front of my linux box right now ). However,
after troubleshooting, and more troubleshooting, I finally decided to
run some HD diagnostics, and found that I had a bad/dieing HD, and I
was able to temporarily repair it, and use it, then able to transfer
off my data.

As an experiement, I kept the HD going, and it hasn't locked up since.
.. . So I don't know. .

Thanks

Mike

Mike <mikedawg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If there is truly absolutely nothing in the log files. . . I'd run
> some diagnostics on the HD. I was having a similiar problem, and found
> a bad HD, without ANY messages anywhere indicating HD failure.

Yea, I've run into hardware issues that only became apparent after the
installation of a new OS.

- Kurt

Thanks for the reply
Hope the HD isn't going down it not that old.
What diagnostics do you suggest, I've never had a HD failure before.

Lez

Lez wrote:
> Thanks for the reply
> Hope the HD isn't going down it not that old.
> What diagnostics do you suggest, I've never had a HD failure before.
>
> Lez

I'd start off running the manufacturers diagnostic, and if they have an
option for a basic check or thorough/advanced check, do the
thorough/advanced check.

Get yourself a copy of the Ultimate Boot CD, and it has many manuf. HD
diagnostic discs on it.

Mike

Le Sun, 05 Nov 2006 06:50:34 -0800, Mike a écrit*:

> Lez wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply
>> Hope the HD isn't going down it not that old.
>> What diagnostics do you suggest, I've never had a HD failure before.
>>
>> Lez
>
> I'd start off running the manufacturers diagnostic, and if they have an
> option for a basic check or thorough/advanced check, do the
> thorough/advanced check.
>
> Get yourself a copy of the Ultimate Boot CD, and it has many manuf. HD
> diagnostic discs on it.
>
> Mike


Besides what mikedawg posted to you (which is a useable piece of advice
that I already used :-)
I'd certainly recommend to start backupin *NOW* the data you really
don't want to miss as most of the real/serious HD test will put it at
even more stress, so you have the choice :

- 1. Backup your 'fragile' data, then run the HD tests
if you were right and the HD is OK you didn't lose any time
but won *some* time for the next alert at deciding which data of
yours had which priorities in the question "what'd you pick
first on your beach seat when the tsunami roars"

- 2. run the HD tests
. If you were righteously confident in your hardware, congratulations
you'll jut have to read this post nex time ;-)

. If you HD just go bored about being used for tests instead of
moving real data you're a bit annoyed...

. In case no data on your HD has any value consider having an X-box
instead ?-D)

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> Thanks for the reply
> Hope the HD isn't going down it not that old.
> What diagnostics do you suggest, I've never had a HD failure before.
>
> Lez
>

Take a look at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com

Cheers

> Get yourself a copy of the Ultimate Boot CD, and it has many manuf. HD
> diagnostic discs on it.
>
> Mike

Thanks Mike
It's looks really good, the only problem is it doesn't like Lilo.
Do you know of a work-round or will I have to remove it.

Lez

Lez wrote:
> > Get yourself a copy of the Ultimate Boot CD, and it has many manuf. HD
> > diagnostic discs on it.
> >
> > Mike
>
> Thanks Mike
> It's looks really good, the only problem is it doesn't like Lilo.
> Do you know of a work-round or will I have to remove it.
>
> Lez

The Ultimate Boot CD shouldn't even have to deal with lilo, as UBCD, is
a booting cd, and therefore there should be no lilo interaction. Make
sure your BIOS is set to boot from CD/DVD drive, and enable that, and
it should boot the cd.

Thanks

Mike

Loki Harfagr wrote:
> Besides what mikedawg posted to you (which is a useable piece of advice
> that I already used :-)
> I'd certainly recommend to start backupin *NOW* the data you really
> don't want to miss as most of the real/serious HD test will put it at
> even more stress, so you have the choice :

Everybody should have regular backups (I know, people tend to push it
off, until it is too late... I speak from experience...)
Also, the problem could also be faulty memory. I have had weird crashes
that I eventually traced to a bad memory chip. Run memtest:
http://www.memtest86.com/

-Joe