Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups.

[Dale]

walt wrote:
> On 07/05/2011 10:38 PM, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> My current plan, finish this new install.  Test the ram and hope it is OK.
>>
> I can feel your pain :(  This may not help, but I thought I'd mention it
> just because nothing else has helped so far.
>
> I started having random keyboard issues right after the most recent xorg
> update on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines.
>
> Maybe just once/day or so I'll hit a key and the auto-repeat function
> starts repeating the keystroke ad infinitum until I hit Backspace.
>
> This is not a lockup like your problem, but it was striking that this
> random keyboard problem started right after the recent xorg update.
> (Yes, I recompiled all the drivers after the upgrade.)
>
> Since you are recompiling/reinstalling everything anyway, what about
> masking the most recent xorg-server/xorg-driver updates so you can test
> older versions?  You quad-core speed demon ;p
>
>

I'm going to add this to the "to try" list.  That sort of makes sense.  
Most of the time it is a hard lock up.  It won't even let me ssh in from 
my old rig or use the SysReq keys.  Sometimes tho, it acts like things 
are still running but the GUI is locked up.  I didn't get to try to ssh 
in then tho.  I know once I had a compile running and I could see the 
hard drive light blinking as it compiled.  So something was working that 
time at least.   One thing I did learn, if the lights on the keyboard 
are blinking, it's locked up tight.  If they are not blinking, I can use 
the SysReq keys to reboot.

I also thought about just booting Knoppix and seeing if it works.  Maybe 
it is just some weird code that Konsole and Firefox have in common 
somehow.  The only thing is, I'm sure they will use different version of 
all the software.  It may not make any difference except to rule out 
hardware.  I'm pretty sure hardware is OK but we know how hard those are 
to track down.

One more thing on the try list if this doesn't work.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)