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Hi,
I am getting the similar problems with Linux Mandrake 8.0 in KDE and
Gnome. No lockups/freezes occur when using the console, i.e. when not
using X-Windows, in runlevel 3.
I have been running Linux Mandrake 7.0 without lockups/freezes.
In LM 7.0 sometimes the keyboard focus seems to lag by a window when I
click around various windows; I can get around this by ALT-TABbing to
another window and back again, but it is not ideal.
In LM 8.0 I have noticed that this behaviour has become more frequent.
A more serious problem is that I usually get a system lockup/freeze within
about 5-10 minutes of moving windows around or bring up configuration
windows etc. I can move the mouse pointer on the screen, but windows
don't respond to clicks, nor will they respond to keyboard input.
In LM 8.0 I did notice that xmms was still playing a couple of tracks
after the X-Window display froze. So it would seem the kernel, filesystem
and audio subsystems were still working. It just seems to be the X
subsystem that freezes, perhaps waiting on a window refresh or something
like that.
I haven't been able to test whether the machine is still pingable because
I am usually away from any other computers when the machine freezes.
I triple boot between LM 7.0, MS Windows 98 and now LM 8.0, on different
partitions (all LM partitions are ext2fs). I am sticking with LM 7.0
(rather than 8.0) until I can resolve this problem, but I would really
like to use more recent libraries and applications and may install Red Hat
7.1 instead.
My hardware:
Sony Vaio laptop PCG-F290
192 MB RAM
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus
TOSHIBA MK2016GAP, ATA DISK drive
TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2202, ATAPI CDROM drive
Standard touchpad mouse: ALPS Glidepoint?
LM 7.0 kernel: 2.2.18
LM 8.0 kernel: 2.4.2
I have run the burnMMX, burnP6 and burnBX (from cpuburn-1.3)
simultaneously for more than an hour in LM 7.0 running X-Windows without
any obvious effects.
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Stability Concerns
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:44:51 -0700
> But I get nothing in the logs except the boot stuff when it comes back
> up.
Ditto.
> > Also, when you get a lockup in X, you can try hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to
> > the first tty, which is also your console, I believe, to see if there were any
> > messages dumped there...
> I tried that and got no response.
Ditto. I have yet to try the LeftALT - SysRq - [rseiu] key sequences.
> > > > On Thursday 17 May 2001 09:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > > 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.
I am not ruling out hardware, considering that a previous post noted that
the complexity of the window manager and graphics libraries has increased
significantly between LM 7.0 and LM 8.0.
However, it is still unusual and annoying. So any help would be
appreciated.
TIA,
Rohan
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