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Glebushka

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Registered: 2010-01-21

Posts: 3

Re: Strange complete system freeze with no log messages

Seems that i have the same problem: X hangs.
System is perfectly acessible remotely, but screen is frozen, no keyboard, no mouse, even numlock doesnt' work.

In Xorg.0.log i have:

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4b04e8]
1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x66209) [0x466209]
2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fe9b5930000+0xee80) [0x7fe9b593ee80]
3: /lib/libc.so.6 (__select+0x13) [0x7fe9b4c854e3]
4: /usr/bin/Xorg (WaitForSomething+0x1ba) [0x45a77a]
5: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x41472) [0x441472]
6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x219ec) [0x4219ec]
7: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fe9b4bdbb6d]
8: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x21599) [0x421599]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 3 (Quit). Server aborting


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
     at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.

(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) G19 Gaming Keyboard: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) G19 Gaming Keyboard: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Logitech G9 Laser Mouse: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Logitech G9 Laser Mouse: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Power Button: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Power Button: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"

Nothing in other logs.

Running nvidia, compiz, gdm+gnome, conky.
btw, X still shows in proccesslist after it hangs.

Last edited by Glebushka (2010-01-21 12:51:09)

silvik

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From: Bucharest/Romania

Registered: 2006-11-08

Posts: 110

Re: Strange complete system freeze with no log messages

After upgrading to X 7.5 I had intermittent lockups too. First I switched from nvidia driver to nouveau or nv, but the lockups didnt dissapear and performance was dreadful, so I came back to nvidia.
Looks like I solved the problem (2 days / no lockups) by disabling completely power management by loading the kernel in grub's menu.lst:

kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/md0 ro vga=773 noapic nolapic noacpi acpi=off apm=off

I uninstalled acpid, because hal tried to start it and failed, of course. I also disabled some BIOS videocard options, like AGP Fast Write and AGP Deep Fifo, but I don't think that matters, I used this card with them active for 4-5 years, no problems. (It's an AGP FX5500 Nvidia card). The only thing that bothers me - the computer doesnt power on it's own, I have to push that botton. not a big deal though

So maybe it's worth to try this acpi thing, for me it works.

Last edited by silvik (2010-01-21 14:49:26)