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berit

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Registered: 2008-04-18

Posts: 6

[Solved] System freezes

I successfully put Arch on my new desktop computer last night.  It wasn't difficult, coming from gentoo, and thus far I'm quite pleased with the system!  This is excellent work.

I do have an issue I'm not sure how to deal with, or where to start looking.  It seems my system completely freezes on occasion, forcing my to do a hard reboot.  So far it seems to happen principally when accessing the network-- downloading through pacman, syncing abs, or opening the occasional webpage in firefox.  It locks up both in console and in X.  I've been searching the forums for clues, but so far I'm stumped.  Can anyone help me?

I installed from the 2008.4 RC x86_64 core iso.  Network is accessed through a Linksys WUSB54GC, which loads perfectly with the rt73 modules.  Is there any other information that might be useful?

Last edited by berit (2008-04-19 21:32:33)

inXistant

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-11

Posts: 51

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Re: [Solved] System freezes

Information usefull... Yeah. Do you have anything odd in your logs i.e. in /var/log/* when this happens?

It could be *completely* unrelated, but did you install anything to make 32 bits applications to run on top of your 64 bit install? I had some system freeze in doing that on another distro.

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berit

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Registered: 2008-04-18

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] System freezes

There's no evidence of anything at all in any kind of log, nothing that looks funny.  In the mean time, I've put in a custom kernel with 2.6.25, and the freezing has stopped.  It made for an awkward work-around to get NVIDIA working again, but the system is finally up and running.  Now I can put in the needed software, and enjoy learning this new system! 

I don't know why the freezing was happening, but I'll mark this as solved since I'm satisfied with the current solution.

damjan

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Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 454

Re: [Solved] System freezes

Probably the rt73 module. Upgrading to 2.6.25 certanly helped with that.