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

[Dale]

Dale wrote:
>
> Let me add some more confusion.  I'm in KDE right now.  I took the
> sides off and blew out a VERY little bit of dust and replugged things,
> video card, mobo power cables and such as that.  I also booted to the
> newly created .kde directory instead of my old one.  This is the old
> install tho.  I logged in with nothing running, blank session, and
> then took a nap.  I got up a few minutes ago and KDE is still
> running.  I opened Kpat, card game, and played a little of it.  After
> a few minutes, I opened Seamonkey and am typing as you can see.  Same
> kernel, same nvidia, same packages and same hardware.
>
> I did notice something a bit ago but have not posted since I noticed
> it.  It seems to crash when I open Konsole as root.  I have my menu
> set up to run it as root and that is where I do my sync and updates.
> As soon as the window pops up, my mouse pointer freezes.  I thought it
> was a coincidence until now.  After I send this reply, I'm going to
> open Konsole and nothing else.  I want to see if it does it again.
> Since it has been running this long with Konsole closed, it would be
> odd if it fails when I open that up here shortly.
>
> I have tried to eliminate things one by one.  I tried a different
> kernel before I ever posted anything but I'm not sure I mentioned it.
> Doing that is almost like breathing.  If I run into issues, I try a
> old kernel first.  I have also tried both nvidia drivers that are in
> portage with a few different kernels.  As mentioned, I also tried a
> fresh install as well.  This makes me question hardware but since
> everything has to work together, who knows where to start.  Could it
> be the extra ram that Konsole accesses?  Could it be a bad instruction
> that the CPU doesn't like?  Could it be the video card trying to
> redraw the screen?  Lots of questions with few answers.
>
> Well, I'm going to send this then open Konsole.  See if it locks up
> again.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

I forgot to answer one question you had.  Yes, this is my new rig that 
was built a while back.

As I was suspecting, I opened Konsole after sending the last message and 
it locked up real good.  I did manage to get the SysReq keys to work 
tho.  I opened Konsole from the menu, the password window popped up and 
I typed in my root password.  After that, the Konsole window popped up 
and as soon as I touched the mouse, lock up.

After I rebooted and logged in, I wanted to see if it could be a bad 
memory issue or even the video card itself.  I opened a HD video, 
Asteroid Galaxy Tour, and played it back to back.  It never missed a 
beat.  I'm going to avoid Konsole and see what all else I can open until 
it fails again.  I'll post back what happens.

Any of you gurus figure out why my system hates to open Konsole as 
root?  I might add, I used konsole from inside Fluxbox with no problems.

Dale

:-)  :-)