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Mick wrote: |
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> On Friday 08 Jul 2011 05:43:58 Dale wrote: |
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>> walt wrote: |
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>>> On 07/05/2011 10:38 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> My current plan, finish this new install. Test the ram and hope it is |
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>>>> OK. |
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>>> I can feel your pain :( This may not help, but I thought I'd mention it |
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>>> just because nothing else has helped so far. |
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>>> I started having random keyboard issues right after the most recent xorg |
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>>> update on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines. |
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>>> Maybe just once/day or so I'll hit a key and the auto-repeat function |
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>>> starts repeating the keystroke ad infinitum until I hit Backspace. |
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>>> This is not a lockup like your problem, but it was striking that this |
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>>> random keyboard problem started right after the recent xorg update. |
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>>> (Yes, I recompiled all the drivers after the upgrade.) |
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>>> Since you are recompiling/reinstalling everything anyway, what about |
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>>> masking the most recent xorg-server/xorg-driver updates so you can test |
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>>> older versions? You quad-core speed demon ;p |
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>> I'm going to add this to the "to try" list. That sort of makes sense. |
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>> Most of the time it is a hard lock up. It won't even let me ssh in from |
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>> my old rig or use the SysReq keys. Sometimes tho, it acts like things |
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>> are still running but the GUI is locked up. I didn't get to try to ssh |
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>> in then tho. I know once I had a compile running and I could see the |
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>> hard drive light blinking as it compiled. So something was working that |
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>> time at least. One thing I did learn, if the lights on the keyboard |
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>> are blinking, it's locked up tight. If they are not blinking, I can use |
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>> the SysReq keys to reboot. |
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>> I also thought about just booting Knoppix and seeing if it works. Maybe |
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>> it is just some weird code that Konsole and Firefox have in common |
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>> somehow. The only thing is, I'm sure they will use different version of |
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>> all the software. It may not make any difference except to rule out |
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>> hardware. I'm pretty sure hardware is OK but we know how hard those are |
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>> to track down. |
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>> One more thing on the try list if this doesn't work. |
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>> Thanks. |
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>> Dale |
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> I'm stating the obvious here, but have you tried restoring from a back up that |
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> you made before these problems started? |
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I usually have a backup but I got rid of it a month or so ago. I was |
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planning to take the drive out and use it for something else but never |
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got around to it. Before that I played with LVM a bit. |
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So far, I have upgraded gcc and glibc and the emerge -e world is almost |
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finished. If it still locks up, I'm going to try a different xorg and |
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friends. Someone else mentioned a bug that is pretty close to what I |
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have going on. |
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I'm going to fix this even if I don't know for sure what caused it. If |
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after this emerge it works, it has to be either gcc or glibc. If it |
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still does it and I upgrade/downgrade xorg and friends then it works, |
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then I know it was one of those. |
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I'm just hoping for a fix and glad I got Fluxbox on here. Fluxbox ain't |
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fancy but it works well for a backup.. I have to add, it is pretty |
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snappy on a 4 core 3.2Ghz CPU with 16Gbs of ram too. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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