I've had random problems with Mandrake 8 as well. The worst is that at
random times the scroll wheel of my mouse stops working in Konqueror. It
will work in other applications most of the time, but sometimes it dies
there as well. The only fix is to exit KDE and restart. I've also had random
lockups as well, although I've been able to ssh into the machine and restart
X to get it to come back.
Just a question: If you are using Nvidia drivers, are you using the nvidia
drivers from XFree or from Nvidia itself?
David
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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:02 AM
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Subject: [expert] Stability Concerns
How is everybody finding the stability of their Mandrake
8 boxes? I've been having some problems.
I've had several random lockups while in KDE. Nothing I
can replicate. Somtimes it locks while I'm doing
something innocuous (moving mouse, minimizing window),
sometimes it's locked up over night. When this happens,
there is no saving it. Keyboard & mouse are completely
dead, and it won't even respond to a ping over the net.
This has happened maybe 6 or 8 times total over the past
2 or 3 weeks.
I've also had 2 random reboots. Once was over night,
and the other was during the day while I was at work. I
had left the box logged in, when I get back the login
screen is up and last shows a reboot. The box is on a
UPS, and the other box on that UPS hasn't rebooted.
There is doesn't seem to be anything interesting in the
logs wrt these incidents.
I'm pretty confident that its not a hardware problem.
This box was rock-solid with a RedHat 6.2 variant.
Any ideas? Frankly, If I was satisfied with this kind
of stability, I'd have stuck with windows :-)
Eric
