Re: Sarge on IBM Thinkcentre A50 - instability

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

George Karaolides wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:24 -0600, Kent West wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I'd leave the machine in console mode (no X) for that period of time, to 
> > see if the machine gets sluggish. If not, you know it's somehow related 
> > to running X.
> >    
>
> I have left it on console mode, and the problem reappeared.  It
> therefore seems to be unrelated to X.
>
> The machine became very sluggish.  The clock lost time.  Repeated
> backspace (key held down) wouldn't work on the keyboard.  Issuing the
> "reboot" command evetually succeeded in rebooting the machine, but it
> took fifteen minutes or so.
>  

I'd try single-user mode.

If the problem doesn't go away, I'd try a Debian-based LiveCD, like 
Knoppix. I'd try a non-Debian-based LiveCD. I'd try a different kernel.

If the problem does go away in single-user mode, I'd run the init 
scripts one at a time (or maybe half at a time) until the problem reappears.


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Kent West
westk@acu.edu