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dodo3773

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Registered: 2011-03-17

Posts: 820

[SOLVED] Laptop Freezes Up On Battery Power

Arch in running great for me exept when I unplug my laptop. When I do all the applications turn grey and my computer freezes up. I tried installing laptop-mode-tools and then added laptop-mode to my daemons array. That did not help so I removed them. My laptop is an HP dv9715nr. I feel like it has got to be something that I am missing on my end because I do not have these problems on any other distros that I have tried. Probably a user error. Here is my rc.conf

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LOCALIZATION
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result
#   in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization)
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
#
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="America/Los_Angeles"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed
# MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
#
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
#
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=( !pcspkr !snd-pcsp )

# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
#
HOSTNAME="dodo"

# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
#
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
#   - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
#   - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
# 
# DHCP:     Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#

#Static IP example
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
#eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(!eth0)

# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
#   - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
 
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up.  These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
#   - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
#   - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
#
# This now requires the netcfg package
#
#NETWORKS=(main)

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(@syslog-ng @networkmanager @hal @alsa @gdm)

Has anyone else came across this problem? Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Thank you in advance for any help.

Last edited by dodo3773 (2011-03-28 03:34:57)

ChoK

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From: France

Registered: 2008-10-01

Posts: 346

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop Freezes Up On Battery Power

Can you switch to a tty when it's locked? what is the content of /var/log/messages.log ?

If there is nothing relevant in the messages.log, can you uncomment everything related to tty12 in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf, restart the syslog-ng daemon. Switch to the tty12 and unplug. Are there some messages?

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dodo3773

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Registered: 2011-03-17

Posts: 820

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop Freezes Up On Battery Power

Can you switch to a tty when it's locked? what is the content of /var/log/messages.log ?

If there is nothing relevant in the messages.log, can you uncomment everything related to tty12 in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf, restart the syslog-ng daemon. Switch to the tty12 and unplug. Are there some messages?

Cannot seem to reproduce the error. Strange. Also, I am trying to post my messages.log from last night but I think that it is too big. The forums aren't letting me. I am getting some wierd server error. Is there a certain search term I should use when looking in that log? By switch to tty do you mean ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X?

CPU Gastronomy

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From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2010-12-29

Posts: 69

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop Freezes Up On Battery Power

Switch to tty mean to switch to terminal.  You can do this by Pressing Ctrl + Alt + Number when you're on X or Ctrl + Number if you're already in a tty.  Number is the number of the terminal (tty1 is 1).  Generally, 7 is used for the X server.

Please, don't post all your messages.log, but just the relevant parts of it (.  If you're not sure, use pastebin (http://pastebin.com/) as it is stated in the forum rules.

dodo3773

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Registered: 2011-03-17

Posts: 820

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop Freezes Up On Battery Power

Switch to tty mean to switch to terminal.  You can do this by Pressing Ctrl + Alt + Number when you're on X or Ctrl + Number if you're already in a tty.  Number is the number of the terminal (tty1 is 1).  Generally, 7 is used for the X server.

Please, don't post all your messages.log, but just the relevant parts of it (.  If you're not sure, use pastebin (http://pastebin.com/) as it is stated in the forum rules.

That is awesome. I just tried it  (Ctrl+Alt+F1) (Ctrl+Alt+F7).  I still have yet to reproduce that error though. All I can guess is that maybe an update fixed it. Still not really sure though.   Here is the output of 

sudo cat /var/log/messages.log | grep "Mar 26" | grep error

http://pastebin.com/cqZNjRqk

Pastebin would not let me put all of yesterday (too big).

dodo3773

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Registered: 2011-03-17

Posts: 820

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop Freezes Up On Battery Power

O.K. I finally reproduced the error. It is related to watching an mkv video file that I had. I just looked at that log and did not see anything about sound or video. I opened vlc from the command line and it gave me this

VLC media player 1.1.8 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Warning: call to srand(1300856238)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:11280): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale.
 m_el[mi_level] == NULL
 arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
 m_el[mi_level] == NULL
 arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
[0x822c57c] signals interface error: signal 17 overriden (0xb2edc150)
[0x822c57c] signals interface error:  /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(?)[(nil)]
[0x822c57c] signals interface error: signal 17 overriden (0xb2edc150)
[0x822c57c] signals interface error:  /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(?)[(nil)]
[0x822c57c] signals interface error: signal 17 overriden (0xb2edc150)
[0x822c57c] signals interface error:  /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(?)[(nil)]

Not really what all this means. I will try uninstalling vlc then reinstalling.

CPU Gastronomy

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From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2010-12-29

Posts: 69

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop Freezes Up On Battery Power

It seems that the bluetooth hardware or the software (bluez) is in fault.  I don't really have more complete idea.

dodo3773

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Registered: 2011-03-17

Posts: 820

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop Freezes Up On Battery Power

It seems that the bluetooth hardware or the software (bluez) is in fault.  I don't really have more complete idea.

Yeah, I don't even have bluetooth (maybe that is why there is an error). I am going to uninstall that package.

dodo3773

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Registered: 2011-03-17

Posts: 820

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop Freezes Up On Battery Power

Since freezing is not related to system (seems to be vlc specific) marking thread as solved.