Problem with System Hanging

qshonuff · 2012-01-18 01:52:39

I've been running Arch for probably 6 months now, and this last week or so while I'm at work my system has started hanging.

I don't really have anything going on in the system while I'm away, but i come back to a blank screen that won't wake up.
(ctl-alt-backspace doesn't do anything, neither does ctl-alt-Fkeys)

Linux hermes 3.1.9-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 14 09:11:37 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Nvidia graphics.
Running Openbox

Any ideas how I can start troubleshooting the problem?

Thanks

jasonwryan · 2012-01-18 02:05:42

Look through your logs for anomalies/clues?

qshonuff · 2012-01-18 02:23:21

Sure.

So from /var/log/everything.log i see:

The "Error! The chip does not support 5G band 1" happens all the time in the log, and isn't always
accompanied by a hang. so i don't think that's it.

Not much else useful in the logs, except that the hang probably happened around 10:27.

Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.3-P2
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost dhclient: Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost dhclient: All rights reserved.
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost dhclient: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost dhclient:
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost dhclient: Listening on LPF/ra0/00:08:54:ad:ff:7f
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost dhclient: Sending on LPF/ra0/00:08:54:ad:ff:7f
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on ra0 to 192.168.200.1 port 67
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost kernel: [59270.081177] RX DESC ffff880037c15000 size = 2048
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost kernel: [59270.085043] Key1Str is Invalid key length(0) or Type(0)
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost kernel: [59270.085051] Key2Str is Invalid key length(0) or Type(0)
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost kernel: [59270.085059] Key3Str is Invalid key length(0) or Type(0)
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost kernel: [59270.085067] Key4Str is Invalid key length(0) or Type(0)
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost kernel: [59270.085192] 1. Phy Mode = 5
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost kernel: [59270.085193] 2. Phy Mode = 5
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost kernel: [59270.101300] phy mode> Error! The chip does not support 5G band 1!
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost kernel: [59270.101352] RTMPSetPhyMode: channel is out of range, use first channel=1
Jan 17 10:27:29 localhost kernelJan 17 17:45:45 localhost kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Jan 17 17:45:45 localhost kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Jan 17 17:45:45 localhost kernel: [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.1.9-2-ARCH (tobias@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.6.2 20111223 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 14 09:11:37 CET 2012
Jan 17 17:45:45 localhost kernel: [ 0.000000] Command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/661dc9aa-50d0-4da5-adf6-7a8fe52421d6 ro
Jan 17 17:45:45 localhost kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jan 17 17:45:45 localhost kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009ec00 (usable)

jasonwryan · 2012-01-18 02:26:47

May not be relevant, but what wireless card do you have and why are you using ra0?

# edit: also, please use [ code ] tags when pasting on the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code

Last edited by jasonwryan (2012-01-18 02:28:04)

qshonuff · 2012-01-18 02:30:28

It's a Ralink corp. RT2800 802.11n PCI

and i use 2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0

for the driver (which does the ra0 stuff)

jasonwryan · 2012-01-18 02:34:17

rt2800pci is mainline now, do you get errors running that?

qshonuff · 2012-01-18 03:33:10

I haven't had much luck with it, specifically, it was locked at 802.11g which caused me problems.

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Problem with System Hanging

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Re: Problem with System Hanging

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