Re: [gentoo-desktop] X freezing?

[Lindsay Haisley]

Is the system freeze-up total, or is the screen and HID input (mouse,
keyboard) simply frozen?  If the box is on a network, try pinging it from
another box and see if it and see if it responds, or if it's running any
TCP/IP services, try connecting to them.

I've had lockups on my system too, affecting the keyboard, mouse and screen,
but they only happen once every month or two, and I've not worried about it. 
This is better performance than MS Windows, for sure ;-) They usually happen
overnight while the box is on and running a screensaver.

Thus spake steve fox on Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:25:53PM CDT
> My system also freezes completely, and at unpredictble intervals,
> although only when using KDE or gnome.   So, my thinking was that I had
> a bad power supply, or bad memory somwhere, but then discovered that I
> can run fluxbox/wmaker without any problems, although the KDE apps crash
> if I run them within fluxbox/wmaker.
>
> I ran emerge sync && emerge -pue kde, then re-installed the whole mess
> as if from an empty tree, and I get the same results.
>
> Some details:
> AT1 Radeon 8500, dual AMD MP CPUs, xorg 6.8, 2.6.7 kernel, using radeon
> driver with 3D acceleration. 1GB RAM and using NPTL.
>
>
> Sound familiar to anyone?
> Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> >In my experience, system freezes are hardware-related, sometimes failed
> >memory, or something else that throws the system completely off-track.  One
> >of the more common and less obvious culprits is a seriously unclean power
> >from a failing power supply.  It's difficult to troubleshoot this kind of
> >thing that happens unpredictably, but it might be instructive to kill X and
> >do a bit of stress testing from the cmd line, such as:
> >
> ># while [ 1 ]; do emerge openoffice; done
> >
> >[or some other large package that's heavy on i/o]
> >
> >Let this run for a few hours, days or whatever is the nominal time between
> >lockups and see if the problem recurs, which will eliminate X if it does
> >(but unfortunately not necessarily implicate X if it doesn't).
> >
> >I'm sure there are others who can suggest better stress-tests.
> >
> >Thus spake A. Gabriel W. Daleson on Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 04:02:55PM CDT
> >
> >>	I'm not sure if this is something serious or merely me being
> >>incompetent at configuring X, but whenever I've run X on this Dell
> >>Inspiron
> >>XPS with a Radeon 9800 Mobility, the entire system locks up. It doesn't
> >>seem
> >>to follow any pattern - sometimes it's within the first five minutes,
> >>other
> >>times nearly an hour.
> >>
> >>	The first time this happened, it destroyed the LCD, so I suspected
> >>refresh rates were set wrong; changing the HorizSync to 75 and VertRefresh
> >>to 60 hasn't helped.
> >>
> >>	I've tried this with both the radeon driver included with X and
> >>ATI's proprietary driver, as well as both gentoo-sources and
> >>development-sources and X.org 6.7.0 and 6.8.0.
> >>
> >>	I've had two lockups since then, but the display's still working.
> >>
> >>	Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any help.
> >>
> >>		Gabe.
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >
> >
>
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