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cdom

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Registered: 2009-03-24

Posts: 11

Computer freezes mouse can still move, keyboard totally locked out.

I am running KDE with Arch64 on a lenovo x61,
Recently my computer has started to freeze. When this happens my mouse still can be moved around but it doesn't interface with the screen. I tried the traditional remedies of ctrl + alt + del, yelling at it, and trying to switch tty (ctl + alt +f keys) to no avail.

Also, supspend stopped working.
Looked at /var/log/pm-suspend.log

...
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/11netcfg suspend suspend: success.
/etc/pm/sleep.d/11suspend suspend suspend: amixer: Invalid command!
amixer: Invalid command!
amixer: Unable to find simple control 'CD',0

amixer: Unable to find simple control 'CD',0

Returned exit code 1.
Thu Jun 18 08:48:48 PDT 2009: Inhibit found, will not perform suspend
Thu Jun 18 08:48:48 PDT 2009: Running hooks for resume
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/11netcfg resume suspend: success.
...

looks like amixer is to blame. But I am not sure how to fix this.

Any help would be appreciated.

deluminathor

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 16

Re: Computer freezes mouse can still move, keyboard totally locked out.

I have a similar problem since I've updated KDE to 4.2.4 (kdemod), however, i was updating also several dozen of other packages so I don't know what exactly caused the problem. Anyway, it seems very similar. And such a freeze appears AFTER resuming from pm-suspend but after a while (a few minutes) rather than immediately.
My /var/log/pm-suspend.log:

/etc/pm/sleep.d/11bluetooth resume suspend: /bin/stty: standard input: Invalid argument
:: Starting bluetooth subsystem:    [BUSY]  bluetoothd   [DONE]
kbluetooth4(12768): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server

kbluetooth4(12767): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.

Returned exit code 255.
/etc/pm/sleep.d/10nfs resume suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01grub resume suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave resume suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging resume suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00auto-quirk resume suspend: success.

As I've written, I'm not sure whether the problem lies in pm-suspend, maype it's KDE fault...
Anyone could help?

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funkyou

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From: Berlin, DE

Registered: 2006-03-19

Posts: 848

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Re: Computer freezes mouse can still move, keyboard totally locked out.

If you guys have intel cards, try to downgrade xf86-video-intel to 2.7.1-1. It solved this problem for me.

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pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: Computer freezes mouse can still move, keyboard totally locked out.

If you guys have intel cards, try to downgrade xf86-video-intel to 2.7.1-1. It solved this problem for me.

I got that a couple of times too, as well as a freeze when the monitor blanked. 2.7.99.902-1 seems to have fixed the latter, so it may fix the former as well. I think it went out yesterday or so.