Horst,
Id suggest trying different ram in the computer for a few days and see if
the errors continue. often ram can seem fine, but actualy be bad, and cause
weird errors like you are seeing. Also, mandrake 9 has been out for a while
now, you might try it and see if the problems still continue (since mandrake
8.1 worked, and the problem has only happened in 8.2, its possible that the
issue is specific to 8.2.
Jamie
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 10:51 am, Horst wrote:
: I am reposting this with additional info on X11.
: I had this problem since I changed from mdk 8.1 to mdk 8.2 (2.4.18-6mdk).
: 8.1 ran w/o any problems for more than half a year on the same hardware.
:
: Problem: I start X11/KDE 2.2.2 as normal user, opening a few consoles in
: KDE, maybe a browser; suddenly certain processes stop working - most often
: observed in consoles, 'cuz most used.
: Even switching out of X to text console doesn't stop this. I start
: looking at various status information; soon all is frozen, leaving me with
: very few chances to do any real-time diagnostics.
: Shutdown hangs too, very early on, or doesn't even start when I try too
: much before shutdown.
: 'ps -ef' hangs between X11 and KDE start (!) -see clips below.
: CPU load goes up to 5.x for no (good) reason.
:
: I had that after I installed mdk 8.2 on my original, previous ext2
: partition (that installation got trashed at one of those crashes). And
: now, with a new installation on ext3 I see similar behavior again.
:
: I didn't see any error message in the logs -but it's possible that I
: overlooked some subtle information that points at a problem ?
: Any pointer as to what to look for in which logs?
:
: Any tips or comments? .................. Horst
:
: (I looked at the Mandrake archives where someone posted an *unanswered*
: message regarding memory leak under X, almost a year ago... doesn't fit
: exactly my situation (as far as I understand the post)... hard to imagine
: I am the only one since that distro came out...)
:
: ============== ps -ef =============
: UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
: ...
: root 1924 1 0 00:03 vc/5 00:00:00 login -- horxx
: root 1925 1 0 00:03 vc/6 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
: root 1928 1920 0 00:03 vc/1 00:00:00 -bash
: horxx 2018 1924 0 00:03 vc/5 00:00:00 -bash
: horxx 2044 2018 0 00:03 vc/5 00:00:00 /bin/sh
: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
: horxx 2055 2044 0 00:03 vc/5 00:00:00 xinit
: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- -deferglyphs 16
: root 2056 2055 4 00:03 ? 00:01:04 /etc/X11/X :0 -deferglyphs
: 16
: ==CONSOLE HANGS HERE FOR EVER==
:
: == next line would be normally: (different PIDs at diff. boot)==
: horxx 2235 2229 0 01:06 tty5 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde
: ...
:
: ============== top: =================
: 12:29am up 26 min, 3 users, load average: 4.88, 3.37, 1.90
: 93 processes: 91 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
: CPU states: 2.7% user, 1.5% system, 0.0% nice, 95.6% idle
: Mem: 255772K av, 246160K used, 9612K free, 0K shrd, 46792K
: buff
: Swap: 546168K av, 3032K used, 543136K free 55928K
: cached
:
: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
: 2056 root 15 0 26344 21M 2548 S 2.1 8.5 1:08 X
: 2288 horxx 11 0 9304 8680 7316 R 0.9 3.3 0:05 kdeinit
: 10498 horxx 15 0 1064 1064 812 R 0.7 0.4 0:00 top
: 2272 horxx 9 0 9268 9268 8416 S 0.1 3.6 0:01 kdeinit
: 2285 horxx 9 0 9148 9148 8392 S 0.1 3.5 0:00 kdeinit
: 1 root 8 0 504 504 440 S 0.0 0.1 0:04 init
: 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
: 3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kapmd
: 4 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00
: ksoftirqd_CPU0
: 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd
: ...
:
: == the resources above used by X are somewhat more than I see under
: redhat 8.0
: == but that doesn't correlate with a CPU load of almost 5 ???
:
: ================== X11 =================
: XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
: (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
: Release Date: 23 January 2002
: If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
: newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
: reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
: Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-1mdksmp i686 [ELF]
: Module Loader present
:
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