[SOLVED] System freezes after pacman -Syu

apophis · 2009-08-14 22:08:27

hi!

as the title says i´ve been encountering annoying system freezes after a system update about a week ago. its hard to tell which package causes the problem, because about 50 or so were updated
i already checked the forum, but couldn´t find something, that worked...

especially when i use firefox and eclipse (they are the applications i used most of the time last week, though), the desktop freezes, but i can still move my mouse. keyboard is dead too, ctrl+alt+backspace or changing to terminal doesn´t work.

i already tried to downgrade the intel-dri and xulrunner, but it didn´t help.

i use arch64 on a packard-bell easynote mh45 notebook.

here some hardware information:

bash-4.0# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

would be nice, if somebody could help me! thanks...

Last edited by apophis (2009-10-03 06:31:12)

djszapi · 2009-08-15 00:39:31

Hello apophis!

Are firefox and eclipse problematic only ? Does the problem exists in other wm/de or in console without X, just fb maximum ? Which WM/DE do you use ? Is there any oops message in the syslog after crashing ? While crashing, Does alt + sysrq + s/u/b work ?

apophis · 2009-08-15 10:29:05

hi djszapi, thanks for your help!

yes, firefox and eclipse are the only two apps i encountered problems so far - but as i wrote these are the two i use most of the time. i´m now using alternatives to check, if the freezes occur with other applications too. didn´t have any problems by now.

i only have xfce installed and i haven´t tried running only console yet.

i had a look at the logs after the crashes, but i couldn´t see anything unusual there, which ones are the most 'interesting' in this case? i´ll post them after the next freeze.

just fb maximum ?
Does alt + sysrq + s/u/b work ?

what is fb, sysrq?

djszapi · 2009-08-15 11:15:26

fb = frame buffer, like sdl applications.

The easiest usage when the system hangs up (or looks like it is) is to press:
alt + sysrq + r (keyboard in raw mode)
alt + sysrq + s (sync disks)
alt + sysrq + b (instant reboot)

Which version of firefox/eclipse do you use ?

apophis · 2009-08-15 12:10:27

i use firefox 3.5.2 and eclipse 3.4.2 .

djszapi · 2009-08-16 07:07:31

Did the earlier versions produce this failure too ? Which update casued this problem? Which kernel/xorg/driver version do you use ? Did you try in other de/wm ?

deej · 2009-08-16 08:45:41

djszapi wrote:

fb = frame buffer, like sdl applications.
The easiest usage when the system hangs up (or looks like it is) is to press:
alt + sysrq + r (keyboard in raw mode)
alt + sysrq + s (sync disks)
alt + sysrq + b (instant reboot)
Which version of firefox/eclipse do you use ?

You'll need to ensure that /etc/sysctl.conf has 'kernel.sysrq = 0' set to 'kernel.sysrq = 1'
for the above to work.

└─ ROOT > cat /etc/sysctl.conf
#
# Kernel sysctl configuration
#

# Disable packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward=0

# Disable the magic-sysrq key (console security issues)
kernel.sysrq = 0

# Enable TCP SYN Cookie Protection
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1

Deej

[EDIT]

Full info here:

http://linuxgazette.net/issue81/vikas.html

Last edited by deej (2009-08-16 09:17:55)

apophis · 2009-08-18 15:12:02

This is a part of /var/log/pacman.log showing the updates in question:

[2009-08-06 21:25] synchronizing package lists
[2009-08-06 21:29] installed libfetch (2.23-1)
[2009-08-06 21:29] upgraded pacman (3.2.2-1 -> 3.3.0-2)
[2009-08-06 21:29] synchronizing package lists
[2009-08-06 21:29] starting full system upgrade
[2009-08-06 21:35] removed kdemultimedia (4.2.4-1)
[2009-08-06 21:35] removed phonon (4.3.1-2)
[2009-08-06 21:35] upgraded nss (3.12.3-1 -> 3.12.3.1-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded xulrunner (1.9.1.1-1 -> 1.9.1.2-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded firefox (3.5.1-1 -> 3.5.2-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded gawk (3.1.6-3 -> 3.1.7-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded ghostscript (8.64-6 -> 8.70-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded imagemagick (6.5.3.10-1 -> 6.5.4.8-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded qt (4.5.2-4 -> 4.5.2-5)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded soprano (2.2.4-1 -> 2.3.0-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded kdelibs (4.2.4-5 -> 4.3.0-2)
[2009-08-06 21:36] installed kdemultimedia-libkcddb (4.3.0-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] installed kdelibs-experimental (4.3.0-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] installed oxygen-icons (4.3.0-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded kdebase-runtime (4.2.4-2 -> 4.3.0-2)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded polkit-qt (0.9.2-1 -> 0.9.2-2)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded k3b (1.66.0alpha2-1 -> 1.66.0alpha2-2)
[2009-08-06 21:36] installed kdemultimedia-dragonplayer (4.3.0-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] installed kdemultimedia-juk (4.3.0-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] installed kdemultimedia-libkcompactdisc (4.3.0-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] installed kdemultimedia-kioslave (4.3.0-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] installed kdemultimedia-kmix (4.3.0-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] installed kdemultimedia-kscd (4.3.0-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] installed kdemultimedia-mplayerthumbs (4.3.0-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] installed kdemultimedia-strigi-analyzer (4.3.0-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] installed kde-meta-kdemultimedia (4.3-5)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded libgsf (1.14.14-1 -> 1.14.15-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded licenses (2.4-1 -> 2.5-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded mkinitcpio (0.5.25-1 -> 0.5.26-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded murrine-themes-collection (20090318-1 -> 20090804-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded octave (3.2.0-1 -> 3.2.2-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] when you use a non-reparenting window manager
[2009-08-06 21:36] set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 in
[2009-08-06 21:36] /etc/profile.d/openjdk6.sh
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded openjdk6 (1.5-4 -> 1.5-5)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded psmisc (22.7-1 -> 22.8-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded python-pysqlite (2.4.1-2 -> 2.5.5-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded readline (6.0.003-3 -> 6.0.004-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] Fixing gshadow file ...
[2009-08-06 21:36] upgraded shadow (4.1.4.1-1 -> 4.1.4.2-1)
[2009-08-06 21:36] Building VirtualBox modules...
[2009-08-06 21:37] 
[2009-08-06 21:37] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[2009-08-06 21:37]  IMPORTANT NOTES:
[2009-08-06 21:37] 
[2009-08-06 21:37] - Run "vbox_build_module" as root every time your kernel is upgraded, to
[2009-08-06 21:37]   compile the module for the new kernel version.
[2009-08-06 21:37] - Add your user to the vboxusers group:
[2009-08-06 21:37]      gpasswd -a USERNAME vboxusers
[2009-08-06 21:37] - Add "vboxdrv" to the MODULES array in your "/etc/rc.conf"
[2009-08-06 21:37] - Add "vboxnetflt" to MODULES if you want Host Interface networking.
[2009-08-06 21:37] - Add "vboxnetadp" to MODULES if you want Host-Only networking.
[2009-08-06 21:37] - If USB does not work for you out-of-the-box, add the following line
[2009-08-06 21:37]   to "/etc/fstab":
[2009-08-06 21:37]      none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=108,busmode=0775,devgid=108,devmode=0664 0 0
[2009-08-06 21:37] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[2009-08-06 21:37] upgraded virtualbox_bin (3.0.2-2 -> 3.0.4-1)
[2009-08-06 21:37] upgraded xfce4-power-manager (0.8.2-1 -> 0.8.3-1)
[2009-08-06 21:37] upgraded xfce4-weather-plugin (0.7.1-1 -> 0.7.3-1)
[2009-08-07 15:04] upgraded intel-dri (7.5-2 -> 7.5-1)
[2009-08-08 17:27] synchronizing package lists
[2009-08-08 17:27] upgraded pacman (3.3.0-2 -> 3.3.0-3)
[2009-08-08 17:27] synchronizing package lists
[2009-08-08 17:27] starting full system upgrade
[2009-08-08 17:29] upgraded gimp (2.6.6-2 -> 2.6.6-3)
[2009-08-08 17:29] upgraded intel-dri (7.5-1 -> 7.5-2)
[2009-08-08 17:29] upgraded kdelibs3 (3.5.10-5 -> 3.5.10-7)
[2009-08-08 17:29] upgraded subversion (1.6.3-1 -> 1.6.4-1)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed lib32-glibc (2.10.1-3)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed lib32-libxau (1.0.4-1)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed lib32-libxdmcp (1.0.2-2)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed lib32-libxcb (1.4-1)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed lib32-libxcomposite (0.4.0-2)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed lib32-libx11 (1.2.2-1)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed lib32-libxext (1.0.5-2)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed lib32-libice (1.0.5-1)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed lib32-e2fsprogs (1.41.8-1)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed lib32-libsm (1.1.0-1.1)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed lib32-libxt (1.0.6-1)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed lib32-gcc-libs (4.4.1-1)
[2009-08-08 19:36] installed opera-snapshot (4502-1)

i didn´t have any problems before these updates and i didn´t try it on another de/wm, because i haven´t got one installed - but i could do that.
i use xorg-server 1.6.3-3, kernel 2.6.30.4-1.

EDIT:

I upgraded to kernel 2.6.30.5-1 and i still encounter the freezes.

Last edited by apophis (2009-08-24 12:27:54)

apophis · 2009-08-24 12:22:21

i tried lxde + openbox today, and had issues too.

instead of freezing, the x-session got reset and the login-screen came up again.

syslog doesn´t show anything unusual:

Aug 24 10:00:16 archlinux syslog-ng[1871]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 10:18:18 archlinux syslog-ng[1871]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Aug 24 10:18:18 archlinux syslog-ng[1871]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 10:18:58 archlinux syslog-ng[1893]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 10:22:51 archlinux syslog-ng[1893]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Aug 24 10:22:51 archlinux syslog-ng[1893]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 10:23:32 archlinux syslog-ng[1862]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 10:42:11 archlinux syslog-ng[1862]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Aug 24 10:42:11 archlinux syslog-ng[1862]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 10:58:54 archlinux syslog-ng[1847]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 11:05:07 archlinux syslog-ng[1847]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Aug 24 11:05:07 archlinux syslog-ng[1847]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 12:08:21 archlinux syslog-ng[1863]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 12:12:17 archlinux syslog-ng[1863]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Aug 24 12:12:17 archlinux syslog-ng[1863]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 12:12:58 archlinux syslog-ng[1833]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 12:15:10 archlinux syslog-ng[1833]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Aug 24 12:15:10 archlinux syslog-ng[1833]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 12:31:37 archlinux syslog-ng[1860]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 12:32:33 archlinux syslog-ng[1860]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Aug 24 12:32:33 archlinux syslog-ng[1860]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 13:35:10 archlinux syslog-ng[1811]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 14:05:40 archlinux syslog-ng[1841]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 14:09:31 archlinux syslog-ng[1841]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Aug 24 14:09:31 archlinux syslog-ng[1841]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 14:10:17 archlinux syslog-ng[1889]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'
Aug 24 14:12:47 archlinux syslog-ng[1885]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.3'

i encountered a freeze when i was using the vlc-player.
hope, someone can help me...

Last edited by apophis (2009-08-24 12:29:53)

apophis · 2009-08-24 12:31:15

By the way: alt + sysrq + s/u/b doesn´t work...

Last edited by apophis (2009-08-24 12:31:26)

apophis · 2009-08-24 15:28:09

here some log data from my most recent freeze (at 17:14h):

everything.log:

Aug 24 16:53:00 archlinux -- MARK --
Aug 24 17:13:00 archlinux -- MARK --
Aug 24 17:14:57 archlinux kernel: SysRq : Emergency Sync
Aug 24 17:14:57 archlinux kernel: Emergency Sync complete
Aug 24 17:15:17 archlinux logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1

as one can see, the system gets the sysrq commands and executes them, but nothing happens.

here i found something.

errors.log:

Aug 24 13:35:40 archlinux dhcpcd: timed out
Aug 24 13:58:37 archlinux kernel: [drm:gm45_get_vblank_counter] *ERROR* trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
Aug 24 14:03:58 archlinux kernel: [drm:gm45_get_vblank_counter] *ERROR* trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
Aug 24 14:05:01 archlinux kernel: [drm:gm45_get_vblank_counter] *ERROR* trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
Aug 24 14:06:10 archlinux dhcpcd: timed out
Aug 24 14:06:29 archlinux kernel: [drm:gm45_get_vblank_counter] *ERROR* trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
Aug 24 14:09:28 archlinux kernel: [drm:gm45_get_vblank_counter] *ERROR* trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
Aug 24 14:10:47 archlinux dhcpcd: timed out
Aug 24 14:13:17 archlinux dhcpcd: timed out
Aug 24 14:13:34 archlinux kernel: [drm:gm45_get_vblank_counter] *ERROR* trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
Aug 24 15:53:41 archlinux kernel: [drm:gm45_get_vblank_counter] *ERROR* trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
Aug 24 15:54:54 archlinux dhcpcd: timed out
Aug 24 17:16:22 archlinux dhcpcd: timed out

i´m gonna google it and see what i find...

EDIT:
I checked the older logs and the error already came up now and then before the regular freezes started...

Last edited by apophis (2009-08-24 15:34:34)

apophis · 2009-09-10 16:54:15

The new intel-drivers, libdrm, xorg, and mesa versions didn´t solve the problem.

Has anybody an idea? Could a reinstall help?

apophis · 2009-10-03 06:30:48

Installing the latest xf86-intel driver from AUR did it!

yaourt -S xf86-video-intel-newest

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[SOLVED] System freezes after pacman -Syu

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