On Friday, April 29, 2011 10:43:29 PM StarLion wrote: > Hallo all. Got a bit of a puzzler for you to... well, puzzle over. > Finally gave in and put Arch on me new(er) laptop, set myself up a KDE > desktop, personalise, etc... the usual post-install kind of things. > Now, I've often got downloads I leave going overnight while I sleep, > which wouldn't be a problem... except at some point in the night the > entire system just locks up. By the time I open the lid in the > morning, the laptop presents me with a black screen and is totally > unresponsive. > Yet if I leave it on a console without X running, it doesn't happen. > Of course, this doesn't really help much, since the download app I use > is a graphic app without a CLI backend, inconveniently. > I've thought to check the logfiles, except even the 'everything.log' > just shows a line with '--MARK--' on it, and then nothing else until > syslog-ng starts up on the next boot up. > Without anything logged to trace it from, I'm at a complete loss here. > I've tried disabling pretty much all of KDE's power management in case > it happened to be that, but no luck. > > Searching about the internet suggested two problem possibilities, > namely VLC (which apparently somehow causes KDE to experience issues > just by having it installed...) and cron, though there's nothing cron > is running except three daily jobs - logrotate, man-db and shadow > respectively, none of which would seem to me to be the cause. > > Anyone got any ideas to lend a hand here? > > -- > Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue Hi, to me that sounds like an X screensaver problem. If the m/c is on a network, try pinging then logging in remotely with telnet from a windows box (unless you have another linux m/c on your network in which case use that). I suspect you will find your laptop is very much alive, but the X server is "hung" blocking the screen & keyboard. In which case ... first off disable the screensaver. Regards Andy
-- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
