Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Robin Atwood wrote: On Thursday 07 Jul 2011, Dale wrote: Well, I'm going to send this then open Konsole. See if it locks up again. There was a fairly well documented problem, on the Gentoo fora at least, with the nvidia drivers, Xorg-server-1.10, KDE 4.6 and Konsole. I had it on

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-09 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: You should continue to investigate the glibc thing. There was a thread about how it's causing problems for someone running LibreOffice I think. You might also look more at what part of Firefox s causing the lockup. Is it Firefox proper, or is it something caused by your

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-09 Thread William Kenworthy
firefox --help lists a DISPLAY option. Start it from a console and set $DISPLAY elsewhere, even remote if thats what it takes ... BillK On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 20:53 -0500, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: You should continue to investigate the glibc thing. There was a thread about how

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 23:01 -0500, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: Dale wrote: Thoughts? Anyone think of anything that could cause this? Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, I have not been following the thread, but have you tried starting the problem apps, konsole etc from a basic xterm with strace?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2011/7/6 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that compilation doesn't lock your system only means that the thing (whatever it is) is not

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 23:01 -0500, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: Dale wrote: Thoughts? Anyone think of anything that could cause this? Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, I have not been following the thread, but have you tried starting the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread Dale
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/6 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that compilation doesn't lock your system only means

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: You have a good point but there is a problem. Some of the kernels I tried ran on this machine with uptimes of several weeks and not one lock up. It could be some upgrade that affected this but who knows what that was since I have updated a lot. As for nvidia, I tried both

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP A little more info.  After my last message, I opened Firefox.  It locked up.  That runs as a regular user of course.  So, I wanted to test a theory.  I logged into Fluxbox after my reboot.  I opened Firefox and it locked up.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread Robin Atwood
On Thursday 07 Jul 2011, Dale wrote: Well, I'm going to send this then open Konsole. See if it locks up again. There was a fairly well documented problem, on the Gentoo fora at least, with the nvidia drivers, Xorg-server-1.10, KDE 4.6 and Konsole. I had it on several machines that locked up

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Whatever the problems is, things are breaking. I think something in KDE is broke, like corrupt file or some corrupt config somewhere, and it was just the first symptom of the problem. No matter what I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking about it, I got 16Gbs on here.  That could take a while to test.  O_O When I'm in a hurry I just run test 5, it seems that 99% of the time that's the test that finds errors anyway. Best, of course, is to run them all,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking about it, I got 16Gbs on here. That could take a while to test. O_O When I'm in a hurry I just run test 5, it seems that 99% of the time that's the test that finds errors anyway. Best,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 05 July 2011 23:16:21 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 05 July 2011 15:41:13 Dale wrote: update your fucking drivers. Seriously, no userspace app does something like this. The driver is broken, KDE touches the broken part and BOOM. Don't blame KDE, blame

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 23:19:00 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: When you quit the GUI, the settings are supposed to be saved to ~/.nvidia-settings-rc and loaded from there when you load the GUI. The -l switch tells nvidia-settings to load the settings from that file and quit, so it should do what

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 05 July 2011 23:16:21 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 05 July 2011 15:41:13 Dale wrote: update your fucking drivers. Seriously, no userspace app does something like this. The driver is broken, KDE touches the broken part and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:27:21 -0500, Dale wrote: But again, it didn't lock up until AFTER I had a power failure. That was when all this started. If I hadn't had the power failure, I may not have had the lock ups to begin with. The root of this problem is what I am

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 06 July 2011 03:52:54 Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: On Tuesday 05 July 2011 15:41:13 Dale wrote: update your fucking drivers. Upset with nVidia perhaps? Seriously, no userspace app does something like this. The driver is broken, KDE touches the broken part and BOOM.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:27:21 -0500, Dale wrote: But again, it didn't lock up until AFTER I had a power failure. That was when all this started. If I hadn't had the power failure, I may not have had the lock ups to begin with. The root of this problem is what I am hoping to find. It

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:27:21 -0500, Dale wrote: But again, it didn't lock up until AFTER I had a power failure. That was when all this started. If I hadn't had the power failure, I may not have had the lock ups to begin with. The root of this problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Urs Schutz
On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:53:23 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: snipped This is what I got: root@fireball / # qcheck -aBT app-office/openoffice sys-auth/consolekit sys-auth/polkit net-nds/openldap app-misc/screen net-print/cups net-print/hplip sys-apps/dbus

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:08:03 -0500, Dale wrote: It sounds like you need to start with qcheck -aBT and trawl through the output, re-emerging anything questionable. This is what I got: root@fireball / # qcheck -aBT app-office/openoffice sys-auth/consolekit sys-auth/polkit

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 10:36:40 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: It sounds like you need to start with qcheck -aBT and trawl through the output, re-emerging anything questionable. I don't think I trust the output of that: # qcheck -aBT [big snip] It produces false positives and you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2011 10:51:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 10:36:40 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: It sounds like you need to start with qcheck -aBT and trawl through the output, re-emerging anything questionable. I don't think I trust the output of that: # qcheck -aBT

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-07-06 3:27 AM, Dale wrote: But again, it didn't lock up until AFTER I had a power failure. That was when all this started. If I hadn't had the power failure, I may not have had the lock ups to begin with. The root of this problem is what I am hoping to find. More than once I have

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:37:54 +0100, Mick wrote: It produces false positives and you need to look at the output for each affected package, but do you know a better way of detecting corruption of installed files? I wasn't familiar with qcheck (yes, I know, I lead a sheltered life!) but

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 06 July 2011 01:03:03 Dale wrote: I might add, the last time it locked up, I had a compile process running in a console. I watched the hard drive light, it was blinking away. So, the root of the system was running but for some reason, I could not get my mouse or keyboard to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2011 01:03:03 Dale wrote: I might add, the last time it locked up, I had a compile process running in a console.  I watched the hard drive light, it was blinking away. So, the root of the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Dale
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that compilation doesn't lock your system only means that the thing (whatever it is) is not bount to intensive I/O operations and/or

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that compilation doesn't lock your system only means that the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2011 12:38:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:37:54 +0100, Mick wrote: It produces false positives and you need to look at the output for each affected package, but do you know a better way of detecting corruption of installed files? I wasn't familiar

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: If I had to guess I'd say, since this followed a power failure where the machine was live and operating (if I've understood the thread through a quick scan) that some file on disk has gotten corrupted and it's that corruption that's causing the problem. You've checked memory.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: If I had to guess I'd say, since this followed a power failure where the machine was live and operating (if I've understood the thread through a quick scan) that some file on disk has gotten corrupted and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: If I had to guess I'd say, since this followed a power failure where the machine was live and operating (if I've understood the thread through a quick scan) that some file on disk

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Let me add some more confusion. I'm in KDE right now. I took the sides off and blew out a VERY little bit of dust and replugged things, video card, mobo power cables and such as that. I also booted to the newly created .kde directory instead of my old one. This is the old

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Dale wrote: Let me add some more confusion. I'm in KDE right now. I took the sides off and blew out a VERY little bit of dust and replugged things, video card, mobo power cables and such as that. I also booted to the newly created .kde directory instead of my old one. This

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2011/7/5 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/4 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings.  I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something.  I did have a power failure the other day and the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/5 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/4 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Well, I tried a different kernel. Same thing. I tried reseting the BIOS and lurking around in there for a bit as well. Same thing. So, right now I'm chewing on a emerge -e kde-meta. After I remembered the power failure the other day, I suspect a corrupt file somewhere. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Well, I tried a different kernel.  Same thing.  I tried reseting the BIOS and lurking around in there for a bit as well.  Same thing.  So, right now I'm chewing on a emerge -e kde-meta.  After I remembered the power

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I got rid of openldap. It runs longer but still crashes so I am back to Fluxbox again, which works fine. I also started with a fresh .kde4 directory. That seemed to help more than anything else.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I got rid of openldap. It runs longer but still crashes so I am back to Fluxbox again, which works fine. I also started with a fresh .kde4 directory. That seemed to help more than

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:07:44 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: You can also use nvidia-settings to change the power saving mode at run-time, but it does not save it and you must do it every time you log into X, which is annoying. Can't you put nvidia-settings -l in xinitrc or autostart? That's the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that compilation doesn't lock your system only means that the thing (whatever it is) is not bount to intensive I/O operations and/or high cpu loads. Openldap itself

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
Just to discard some basic things, you could run a SMART check in your disks and memtest86+ in your RAM. The fact that a memory intensive desktop locks the computer that flux didn't might mean a thing there (or not). -- Jesús Guerrero Botella

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:07:44 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: You can also use nvidia-settings to change the power saving mode at run-time, but it does not save it and you must do it every time you log into X, which is annoying.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 18:14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Can't you put nvidia-settings -l in xinitrc or autostart? That's the official way of loading the settings at login. If I remember, this option could not be set by commandline, only by the nvidia-settings GUI. Maybe it has been

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that compilation doesn't lock your system only means that the thing (whatever it is) is not bount to intensive I/O operations and/or

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 05 July 2011 15:41:13 Dale wrote: update your fucking drivers. Seriously, no userspace app does something like this. The driver is broken, KDE touches the broken part and BOOM. Don't blame KDE, blame nvidia. And update the driver. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 05 July 2011 15:41:13 Dale wrote: update your fucking drivers. Seriously, no userspace app does something like this. The driver is broken, KDE touches the broken part and BOOM. Don't blame KDE, blame nvidia. And update the driver. I don't think

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 18:14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Can't you put nvidia-settings -l in xinitrc or autostart? That's the official way of loading the settings at login. If I remember, this option could not be set

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Whatever the problems is, things are breaking.  I think something in KDE is broke, like corrupt file or some corrupt config somewhere, and it was just the first symptom of the problem.  No matter what I try to emerge, I get

[gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Dale
Hi, Has anyone else had any hard lock ups in KDE? I'm on kde 4.6.4 which was released about a month ago. For those not in the know, I'm on amd64 and use kde-meta so it is has the kitchen sink installed here. What mine does: It sort of varies but usually when I login, it may last a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2011/7/4 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Hi, What mine does:  It sort of varies but usually when I login, it may last a couple minutes, usually less, then the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LED's blink.  The Num Lock key is off if that means anything.  I tried the SysReq keys but it doesn't do

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Dale
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/4 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: Hi, What mine does: It sort of varies but usually when I login, it may last a couple minutes, usually less, then the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LED's blink. The Num Lock key is off if that means anything. I tried the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 July 2011 19:12:50 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella did opine thusly: 2011/7/4 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Hi, What mine does: It sort of varies but usually when I login, it may last a couple minutes, usually less, then the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LED's blink. The Num Lock

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 04 July 2011 11:48:51 Dale wrote: Hi, Has anyone else had any hard lock ups in KDE? I'm on kde 4.6.4 whichwas released about a month ago. For those not in the know, I'm on amd64and use kde-meta so it is has the kitchen sink installed here. What mine does: It sort of varies but

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 July 2011 19:12:50 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella did opine thusly: 2011/7/4 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: Hi, What mine does: It sort of varies but usually when I login, it may last a couple minutes, usually less, then the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LED's

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2011/7/4 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings.  I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something.  I did have a power failure the other day and the relay on my UPS was not quite fast enough.  I think the contacts may

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Dale
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/4 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I did have a power failure the other day and the relay on my UPS was not quite fast

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Gregory Shearman
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/7/4 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings.  I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something.  I did have a power failure the other day and the relay

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Dale
Gregory Shearman wrote: Jesús J. Guerrero Botellajesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/7/4 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I did have a power