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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Random freezes. How to seek the problem? Help.

In the research lab arrived a new computer. It is pretty old, so the staff decided to not install Fedora 9, as they usually do, and install Archlinux.

I installed the base group, xorg, sis driver for X, texlive. I finally made a Xorg.conf file using hwd.
I installed lxde for having quickly a good and fast desktop environment.

Everything seems fine, but often the computer just freezes. Usually pretty quickly just after the logon in X. The machine stops responding and I am forced to do an hard shutdown pressing the off button five seconds.

It does not seems to happen outside X.

I tries using `stress' for some time but nothing happened.
I have no ideas...

# hwd -e
Testing: kernel (2.6.26-ARCH) supports uevents

10ec:8029 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. module: ne2k-pci 
          RTL-8029(AS)
1106:3057 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. module: - 
          VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
1106:0605 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. module: agpgart-via 
          VT8605 [ProSavage PM133]
1106:0571 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. module: pata_via 
          VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE
1106:0686 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. module: parport_pc 
          VT82C686 [Apollo Super South]
1319:0802 Input device controller: Fortemedia, Inc module: FM801_gameport 
          Xwave QS3000A [FM801 game port]
1319:0801 Multimedia audio controller: Fortemedia, Inc module: FM801 
          Xwave QS3000A [FM801]
1106:8605 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. module: - 
          VT8605 [PM133 AGP]
1106:3038 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. module: uhci_hcd
uhci_hcd 
          VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
1106:3038 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. module: uhci_hcd
uhci_hcd 
          VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
1039:0325 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] module: sis 
          315PRO PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter

Any idea of what can I try?

Last edited by ezzetabi (2008-09-25 08:54:39)

drewbug01

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From: chicago

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 85

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Re: Random freezes. How to seek the problem? Help.

Is there anything going on in the dmesg at the time? maybe check some things in /var/log ... perhaps messages.log , everything.log etc

question: is it a complete hard kernel lock? ie, after it happens, can you still toggle the numlock on/off? (if you can, then the kernel probably hasn't completely crapped out yet)

--drew