From: Bryan Irvine (sparctacusgmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2005 - 18:00:31 CST

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Same here. I was actually able to cause the error by running
locate.updatedb. I would get a screen full of errors that didn't show
up messages.

--Bryan

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:40:33 +0100, Marcus Lindemann <mlishebang.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> I had also a randomly freezing PC some time ago. In my case it was
> caused by an aging hard disk.
> BR
> Marcus
> Josh Black wrote:
>
> >Hi -
> >
> >I'm using a generic PC running 3.6 as my firewall. Everything was
> >working wonderfully until about 3 weeks ago when it started randomly
> >locking up. The entire machine freezes. It doesn't respond to pings,
> >the console keyboard doesn't work, nothing. The only thing I can do is
> >cycle the power.
> >
> >So far I've tried swapping out the NICs, the keyboard, even the entire
> >PC itself for another spare one I have that runs 3.6 as well. Nothing
> >makes a difference.
> >
> >I have been searching and searching trying to figure out why it's doing
> >this, but I can't find any answers. I checked /var/log/messages and
> >there are no error messages there. The screen doesn't show a kernel
> >panic or anything like that. I'm not even sure where I need to be
> >looking. Any ideas at all would be helpful at this point. Thanks!
> >
> >
> <snip>

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