Sevatio Octavio wrote:
> I'm asking to find out if others have had this same problem. Once in a while when
>I'm using KDE, the mouse-pointer would freeze,
> the keyboard stop responding, and the harddrive become very active. It would
>continue that way for over an hour at times and then
> result in jumping back to the Mandrake login menu. I'm using Mdk7 and I had the same
>problem with Mdk6.0 & Mdk6.1. What in KDE is
> causing the harddrive & CPU to work so hard that I'm no longer able to use the mouse
>or do a ctrl-alt-bkspace?
>
> Seve
Either Netscape or StarOffice or both.
I was able to exit to a console witrh ctrl-alt-f2 and after 42 tries, to login (it was
timing out on password because the disk hits
wouldn't let me type it, then I ran top which came up slowly, and ld-linux.so was
taking 99.4% CPU time. This occurred very
infrequently unless we started, in order, KLyx, SO51, then netscape. Also SO51 set in
full-screen mode seemed to increase the
frequency.
I suggest you become a tester for Netscape 6 PRE 1 and see if that helps. Another
trick, if you have another machine, is to use
Webmin (Telnet will fail on login because you will time out on the password, many
times) A final trick is to do ctrl-alt-f2 as soon
as you start your session and do a root login on that console, then try to get back
there when the mouse freezes.
On one machine, avoiding heavy use of the swap buffer worked--along with my wild
netscape hunter-killer version 2. On a second which
exhibited similar behavior, getting rid of the motherboard cured the problem. It was
a flaky VX-Pro+ chipset on a Houston tech mobo
that was bought 3 years ago (not by me, though at the time I knew no better, either).
Civileme
