DSL just randomly gives up?Forum: Other Help Topics Topic: DSL just randomly gives up? started by: haravikk Posted by haravikk on Oct. 31 2006,21:37
This problem is simple:I've finally got DSL set-up how I want, added very little to it really besides XAMPP for Linux and the driver needed to get my wireless card working. In addition to that I switched on the SSH client (the version of XAMPP I installed doesn't come with one) and BetaFTP (switched off XAMPP's FTP client). I get all going, besides the fact that it insists on NOT finding my wireless card despite it being set-up in every file etc. it works okay, I just need to enter in the command to switch it on and choose it as my network device every time I start-up. That's fine, it's only a test-server and it should be rare that I ever need to restart it. So it's running fine, serving web-pages, SSH connections are happy, and the FTP connection is great. Everything running smoothly. One hour later and none of it's responding, I can't get the site to load on my main machine, SSH says host is down, FTP times out. I plug my second monitor back into the DSL machine and get...a black screen. Nothing, my wireless card's lights have gone off, and absolutely nothing is happening. I'm forced to reboot. Why?! There is absolutely nothing anywhere that gives any indication as to the remotest possibility of what might have happened, it's not even like the DSL desktop appeared for me to see where it froze and what the CPU load etc was at the time. It's just dead, despite the machine being perfectly happy. And it's scheduled fun for the hour amounted to absolutely diddly squat, that's right, I didn't do anything. Over the hour I didn't SSH into it, I didn't view any web-pages, I didn't do any FTP. I just left it sitting there thinking that a computer could be left for an hour without trouble. So how do I find out what happened? Where do I even begin trying to fix this, and why in the hell did I think for the slightest second that doing what should be simple things on a fairly simple OS would be a straight forward thing for me to do on a day that's been as bad as today? Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 31 2006,23:20
I'm guessing this is a power related issue - are you doing anything with acpi/apm or apic ?Also, are you booting into X or just using a tty? Posted by haravikk on Nov. 01 2006,00:34
I have no idea what those abbreviations mean, if by X you mean a window client then I'm using whatever powers fluxbox. It all works fine, it works fine for prolonged periods when I was setting up the machine and figuring out how to get the wireless card working (which took AGES). But when I leave it on its own doing nothing then something causes it to just hang.It can't be power related as the machine is up and running just fine, wireless card lights don't indicate power, only active status and actual transmissions (green light shows if card is active, orange light flashes as information is sent). As I say, it was fine for the entire time I was setting it up which was a lot longer, for some reason while idle it's having problems. Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 01 2006,01:03
X refers to the X window server - the gui mode you are using.I'm referring to power management - I know of which acpi or apm does (you can look them up i.e. google if you want). My guess is that when DSL's TinyX server activates the screensaver/blanking, your system freezes up. You can try any of the following options: - check which power management your system can use, and configure/disable whichever one for DSL - don't use X (saves resources too) - disable the screensaver What kind of system are we talking about here? Posted by skaos on Nov. 01 2006,10:20
Maybe it is overheating? Open the box and remove any dust and see if all fans are working.Also take a look at this thread: < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=15158; > |