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rockstarrem

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Registered: 2012-08-28

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Consistent Crashes/Freezes

Hey guys,

I'm really not sure what information to give you, other than what is happening.

At random points, it doesn't matter what I am doing, my system freezes and it's unable to recover without a reboot. When I say freeze, I mean the mouse doesn't move, my music (if playing) repeats the last 3 seconds of what I already heard, etc etc. I'm not sure what log files to provide or anything, but I can provide whatever you need to help get this sorted out.

Appreciate your time.

Hardware:

Intel® Core™ i7-2600K Processor (8M Cache, running @ 4.60 GHz OC'd)
ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Motherboard
4x Corsair XMS3 Series 4GB DDR3-2000 (16GB running @ 1866MHz with 9-10-9-19 timings)
2x 1GB nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti DS Superclocked (in SLI)
OCZ ZX Series 1000 Watt PSU
Noctua NH-D14 6-Heatpipe CPU Heat Sink With Dual Noctua Fans
NZXT Crafted Series Phantom Full Tower ATX Gaming Computer Case (Black)
Samsung SMS27A550H 27" HD 1080p LED Monitor (running through HDMI)

Last edited by rockstarrem (2012-09-11 18:06:08)

rockstarrem

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Registered: 2012-08-28

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Re: Consistent Crashes/Freezes

Could anyone help me out?

Also, I've noticed that all of my RAM is being used up very quickly and none of my swap is being used at all. I wonder if this has something to do with it.

DSpider

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Registered: 2009-08-23

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Re: Consistent Crashes/Freezes

Try the linux-lts kernel. The rest of that article may be useful too.

Last edited by DSpider (2012-09-13 18:34:23)

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rockstarrem

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Re: Consistent Crashes/Freezes

My computer doesn't boot into that kernel. I installed the kernel, ran sudo update-grub, tried booting into it, and it just stayed at a black screen.

DSpider

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Re: Consistent Crashes/Freezes

That's because update-grub is not a valid command. Are you even using Arch Linux? That command is for Ubuntu, I think.

Says there:

For GRUB, the recommended method is to automatically re-generate the .cfg.

And it points to:

Finally, generate a configuration for GRUB2 (this is explained in greater detail in the Configuration section):

# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

There is no "update-grub" on the GRUB wiki page. Seriously. Use Ctrl+F and search for "update-grub" on that page.

Last edited by DSpider (2012-09-14 06:43:12)

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rockstarrem

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Registered: 2012-08-28

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Re: Consistent Crashes/Freezes

That's because update-grub is not a valid command. Are you even using Arch Linux? That command is for Ubuntu, I think.

Says there:

For GRUB, the recommended method is to automatically re-generate the .cfg.

And it points to:

Finally, generate a configuration for GRUB2 (this is explained in greater detail in the Configuration section):

# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

There is no "update-grub" on the GRUB wiki page. Seriously. Use Ctrl+F and search for "update-grub" on that page.

Yes, I'm using Arch Linux but Ubuntu as the OS that Grub is on /boot. So I went into Ubuntu and ran sudo update-grub.

DSpider

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Re: Consistent Crashes/Freezes

tried booting into it, and it just stayed at a black screen.

Sounds like a KMS issue, and you may need to disable it. Which video driver and graphics (card, model) do you have?

Last edited by DSpider (2012-09-14 12:20:40)

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rockstarrem

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Re: Consistent Crashes/Freezes

tried booting into it, and it just stayed at a black screen.

Sounds like a KMS issue, and you may need to disable it. Which video driver and graphics (card, model) do you have?

Well it's interesting you bring that up. In the current kernel I'm using I cannot see the terminal past "Starting udev events" on boot, it just brings me straight to lxdm now since this is the only way I could even get Arch to boot to begin with (I had to blindly type in commands in order to get it to boot with the graphics driver I'm using.) I'm using the latest nVidia graphics driver. I tried the open source one (Nouveau or something) and it didn't work with X at all. My GPU: 2x 1GB nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti DS Superclocked (in SLI)

DSpider

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Re: Consistent Crashes/Freezes

Any weird parameters in /etc/default/grub ?

...
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
...

If there are, removed them and re-generate the .cfg from the above posts.

Edit: And also reverse the Early Start if you enabled it, by getting rid of nouveau from mkinitcpio.conf and re-generating the initramfs image ("mkinitcpio -p linux").

Last edited by DSpider (2012-09-14 13:41:34)

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