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#1 2011-08-26 22:51:37

tdreyer1
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Arch randomly freezes with no error messages

Every few days ( anywhere from 5 - 15 ) my Arch install will freeze and not respond to any input, SSH attempts, or the magic sys-req keys. Unfortunately, there is also no related error messages that I can find in /var/log/everything.log. What can I do to further troubleshoot this when there's no error‽

System info:
2.6.39-ARCH i686
AMD Phenom(tm) II X3 720 Processor AuthenticAMD
Openbox

everything.log before & after freeze:

Aug 26 09:00:27 localhost -- MARK --
Aug 26 09:00:43 localhost crond[14820]: mailing cron output for user tdreyer1 /usr/bin/podget -s
Aug 26 09:00:43 localhost crond[14820]: unable to exec /usr/sbin/sendmail: cron output for user tdreyer1 /usr/bin/podget -s to /dev/null
Aug 26 09:18:01 localhost crond[1028]: FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root PID 27774 job sys-hourly
Aug 26 09:18:03 localhost crond[27777]: mailing cron output for user root job sys-hourly
Aug 26 09:18:03 localhost crond[27777]: unable to exec /usr/sbin/sendmail: cron output for user root job sys-hourly to /dev/null
Aug 26 09:20:27 localhost -- MARK --
Aug 26 09:30:01 localhost crond[1028]: FILE /var/spool/cron/tdreyer1 USER tdreyer1 PID 5074 /usr/bin/podget -s
Aug 26 09:30:41 localhost crond[2248]: mailing cron output for user tdreyer1 /usr/bin/podget -s
Aug 26 09:30:41 localhost crond[2248]: unable to exec /usr/sbin/sendmail: cron output for user tdreyer1 /usr/bin/podget -s to /dev/null
Aug 26 09:40:27 localhost -- MARK --
Aug 26 10:00:01 localhost crond[1028]: FILE /var/spool/cron/tdreyer1 USER tdreyer1 PID 26073 /usr/bin/podget -s
Aug 26 10:00:27 localhost -- MARK --
Aug 26 10:00:32 localhost crond[23362]: mailing cron output for user tdreyer1 /usr/bin/podget -s
Aug 26 10:00:32 localhost crond[23362]: unable to exec /usr/sbin/sendmail: cron output for user tdreyer1 /usr/bin/podget -s to /dev/null
Aug 26 17:29:50 localhost syslog-ng[894]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.2.4'
Aug 26 17:29:50 localhost kernel: [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Aug 26 17:29:50 localhost kernel: [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Aug 26 17:29:50 localhost kernel: [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.39-ARCH (thomas@evey) (gcc version 4.6.1 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat
 Jul 9 15:31:04 CEST 2011

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#2 2011-08-27 00:31:28

davidgurvich
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Re: Arch randomly freezes with no error messages

Does your system ever unfreeze?  You need to check the usual culprits.  In software desktop indexing, system update, filesystem access, drivers for graphics and others.  In hardware bad/incompatible memory stick, failing hard drive, inadequate/bad power supply, or some motherboard component failing.    Could also be some addon card causing issues.

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#3 2011-08-28 20:35:16

tdreyer1
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Registered: 2011-03-26
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Re: Arch randomly freezes with no error messages

AFAIK, it does not ever unfreeze. As you can see, this time it was frozen for around 7 hours... I don't think I'm going to wait for it to unfreeze after that amount of time.

There've been no hardware changes since I set up my system with Arch.

I doubt it is the power supply as it was not under load at the time, and it runs like a champ with anything I can throw at it to use more power.

While a bad hard drive is possible, I maintain my drives with spinrite regularly so I'm a bit doubtful that that is the cause. I may run spinrite again just for the hell of it, though.

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