John Joseph Trammell writes: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:42:47PM -0500, Robert P. Goldman wrote: > > Any messages on console? Absolutely none. And none in any of the logs. Per others' suggestions, perhaps this is something the BIOS does and it's invisible to the kernel? > I guess I find it hard to believe there's > somthing crying out like that and leaving no log whatsoever. If this > were my system I'd start by: > > 1. figuring out how to reproduce the problem reliably Looks like a challenging ps or pdf print job will usually do it, but I can't trigger it reliably. > 2. start shutting off services while "driving the problem", > and seeing when the problem stops Did that, stopping cups as first choice, but never found anything that reliably stopped the problem. > 3. repeat until I know exactly what service is misbehaving > 4. reconfigure the service to not do that Never got to this point. R