Netbook freezes and is unresponsive

iamsmrt · 2011-10-21 21:58:37

It's happened a couple of times in the past few days where my 901 eeepc will completely lock up, it won't respond to any keyboard/touchpad input or even magic keys. I've looked at the errors.log, kernel.log and everything.log and I didn't see anything of interest. I'm at a bit of a loss here, any help would be greatly appreciated.

jasonwryan · 2011-10-21 22:14:12

I'm using a 901 and have had no problems.

Please provide some details about your setup: wm, recent updates, any particulars about your software etc... Also, it might pay to run memtest.

iamsmrt · 2011-10-21 22:29:53

WM: Xmonad
Recent updates: Here's the pastebin of my pacman.log going to the beginning of the month
http://pastebin.com/dTcKqrf1
Software: Can't think of any particulars, I've been running emacs + firefox + pidgin at the time.

I'll run a memtest overnight, thanks.

jasonwryan · 2011-10-21 22:34:28

Also take a look at Xorg.log. Can you SSH into the machine when it locks up? That might provide some more information.

/dev/zero · 2011-10-21 22:39:38

Hi iamsmrt,

What do you mean by magic keys?

Have you tried to pressing CTL-ALT-F1 to access a console? I sometimes find Awesome locks up on my Ubuntu and Debian machines, and it is possible to at least get back to a gdm login without restarting the computer, by switching to console mode and killing awesome.

iamsmrt · 2011-10-21 22:55:49

/dev/zero wrote:

Hi iamsmrt,
What do you mean by magic keys?
Have you tried to pressing CTL-ALT-F1 to access a console? I sometimes find Awesome locks up on my Ubuntu and Debian machines, and it is possible to at least get back to a gdm login without restarting the computer, by switching to console mode and killing awesome.

Nope, the keyboard is entirely unresponsive. Magic Keys are a way to safely reboot your system in case of events like this: http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%2 … /sysrq.htm.

jasonwryan wrote:

Also take a look at Xorg.log. Can you SSH into the machine when it locks up? That might provide some more information.

Good idea, I'll try to get it to freeze when I'm at home and have access to another computer.

vinc · 2011-10-30 14:27:01

That is intersting. I'm experiencing the same problem and I'm a Xmonad user too. Do you have any news? I didn't have time to look into it until today.

In my case it first started at least a week ago (or maybe a little more) on the computer I use at work (Asus G74) with 0 to 3 freezes a day. And now it is the same on my netbook (Asus 1005H-AH) since I did an update yesterday (~20 days since the previous one).

I'm using Xmonad, Urxvt, Vim, Uzbl and not much else. The laptop at work has a Nvidia graphic card and my netbook an Intel one. I ran a memtest on the former during a night with no error. And the latter is running Archlinux fine since I bought it.

davve · 2011-11-07 22:21:05

+1 for random freezes. Computer is unreachable. Using xmonad + sandy bridge mobile chipset.

Hoping for a fix, but glad to see i am not the only one.

jasonwryan · 2011-11-07 22:22:40

Possibly related to xmonad https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1013340

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Netbook freezes and is unresponsive

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