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amranu

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Registered: 2008-09-25

Posts: 94

[Solved] Random freezes, keyboard lockups

There doesn't appear to be anything to explain this in the logs, but Arch tends to randomly freeze, sometimes a kernel panic sometimes not, either way it forces a restart.

There are also times where the keyboard becomes inoperable and using halt won't work, a hard reset is required.

So yeah, I have no idea where to start. I posted this in another forum but perhaps I will get better responses here.

I am running Arch64 on an xps m1330 with an nvidia 8400m, running gnome with compiz-fusion-git.

Last edited by amranu (2008-10-18 17:16:56)

esters

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 173

Re: [Solved] Random freezes, keyboard lockups

Hi, paste your "dmesg | tail" output.

amranu

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Registered: 2008-09-25

Posts: 94

Re: [Solved] Random freezes, keyboard lockups

There was nothing in dmesg except boot up messages

kclive18

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From: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Registered: 2008-05-08

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Re: [Solved] Random freezes, keyboard lockups

Sometimes GNOME freezes on me like that on my laptop (which is why I switched to the lighter and much stabler XFCE).  It could most likely be compiz that's giving you this problem; try not using it and see if this freezing problem persists.

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idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: [Solved] Random freezes, keyboard lockups

For me it's a problem with the newest kernels and possibly the power cooling or some other motherboard fault. I have to run different distros if I want to go into x these days ..

Check if it's similar to these problems:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43932
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=55071

Please report whatever you can find out!

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amranu

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Registered: 2008-09-25

Posts: 94

Re: [Solved] Random freezes, keyboard lockups

They both sound somewhat similar to my problem, especially the first one.

The freezes are coming less now but the keyboard lockups are far more common. Symptoms are: everything works except keyboard, if a key was depressed it remains depressed for the remainder of the boot. Sending the shutdown command through gnome doesn't work(says it sends the sigterm signal but nothing happens)

Last edited by amranu (2008-10-08 13:01:15)

idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: [Solved] Random freezes, keyboard lockups

Have you tried the new kernel to see if that helped the problem?

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amranu

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Registered: 2008-09-25

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Re: [Solved] Random freezes, keyboard lockups

The problems seem to have been fixed since the second to last nvidia driver update.

idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: [Solved] Random freezes, keyboard lockups

Hm, indeed. Now I have been up and running the whole day with no freezeups. And the system is snappier than ever as well

I will test it for a few more days to be certain tho

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