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[LUG] Poorly penguins



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what would cause a previously working system to try to run THIRTY copies of 
cron and thirty copies of python -S /var/lib/mailman/qrunner, leading the 
load average to hit 47!

I did have a copy and paste of the actual 'w' output on this laptop but THIS 
then crashed as well and I lost that!

It all started with that Mozilla spell-check error and ever since, whether 
mozilla is running or not, I suddenly find that the machine won't respond to 
the mouse, keyboard or network for upto TWENTY minutes at a time. It never 
exits on it's own, it's either a nasty shutdown or wait (this time 35 
minutes) for a telnet session to login, give me a root prompt, get a ps -ax 
output kill 60 jobs (including crond) and hope. I mean sometimes, after 
killing all those jobs, stupid things stop working (like the network - quite 
a bummer when I'm actually trying to fix the machine over the LAN - but also 
things like alsa.).

WHAT is wrong with it?

I've tried stopping crond before starting any work, but now even KPPP causes 
the system to loop. I'm beginning to think it's the linmodem driver.

BTW. Does anyone know what 'No carrier' really means in terms of the level of 
line noise? I'm getting bouts of >2hrs at a time of No Carrier reports and 
I'm waiting for BT to come and check it (-> not our problem is the expected 
response).

I'm not allowed to have any form of broadband, my modems don't connect and my 
main machine is on a fast loop to silicon heaven. HELP!


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Neil Williams
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http://www.codehelp.co.uk
http://www.dclug.org.uk

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