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

[Dale]

Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
> Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't
> be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that
> compilation doesn't lock your system only means that the thing
> (whatever it is) is not bount to intensive I/O operations and/or high
> cpu loads.
>
> Openldap itself can't hard lock up anything if the kernel doesn't give
> it permissions to do so (kernel bug) or if the hardware is not faulty.
> Same goes for tray apps.
>
>

OK.  I tested this and it doesn't help any.  I tried three different 
kernels, all of which I have used in the past with no problems, and get 
the same thing.  I have tried reinstalling nvidia-drivers and a 
different versions of nvidia-drivers, same thing.  So, either previously 
working kernels are now broke, nvidia which was working fine just a few 
days ago with no recent updates here just broke or just maybe it is 
something else we have yet to figure out yet.  I also ran memtest for 
HOURS with not one problem reported.

Given I have tried the above, do you still think it is kernel, nvidia or 
hardware?  I'm about to run tests on the drive now.  I suspect it is 
going to show no problems as well.

This is also the reason I keep old kernels laying around:

root@fireball / # ls -al /boot/bzImage*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4257840 Mar 21 18:39 /boot/bzImage-2.6.38-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480304 Mar 22 12:00 /boot/bzImage-2.6.38-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4493872 Mar 25 13:02 /boot/bzImage-2.6.38-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4496336 Mar 29 03:25 /boot/bzImage-2.6.38-r1-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4454480 Apr  7 19:13 /boot/bzImage-2.6.38-r1-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4451760 May  3 02:16 /boot/bzImage-2.6.38-r3-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4451536 May 12 06:12 /boot/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1
root@fireball / #

I did try .39 but it had issues.  I got rid of those.

Dale

:-)  :-)