On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 11:23, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 30 May 2003 5:32 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 07:24, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 23:43, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 22:07, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > > > Peeps, > > > > > > > > > > There have been an alarming number of system freezes here > > > > > recently, and > > > > > > > > My gui works a little more stable since I use the non-fb boot > > > > option so I'll keep a lookout for error messages as of now. > > > > So actually my gut feeling says: XFree86-4! > > > > > > > > Anyway, I'm not upgrading any of my other machines before I'm > > > > sure though. > > > > > > > > Good luck, > > > > HarM > > > > > > Just to add to my own mail:o) > > > > > > Been booting, running and testing for a few days now. > > > Not booting in framebuffer resolves all my "lock ups" system > > > freezes. > > > > > > I'll be moving (i.e upgrading) onto my laptop tonight, there's > > > certain to be some troubles lurking in the dark there. > > > > I'll agree that 4.3 seems to be troublesome. It feels as if it > > supports less in the way of video cards than 3.3.6 does! even less > > than 4.2.1, but that could be imagination not scientific fact. I > > have also found that using the tips and tricks from the DRI guys > > Gatos and all really helps with ATI cards. > > > > James > > While on the subject of lockups, the only problem I've had is when > trying to use my filmscanner - for which 9.1 says it has a driver. I > changed to the multimedia kernel, but the same thing happened there. > Sooner or later I will try a later kernel. > > What I would really like to do is to close everything I can, then set > something going that would cause an orderly shutdown in, say 5 > minutes which would be no problem if was ok, but would get me out of > a crash. Logically, though, if I have a situation where neither > mouse nor keyboard is responding, I presume that it means there is a > runaway process that is taking all resources, so it wouldn't work. > Is that right? > > Anne >
Right enough... but it is possible that X is locked up but not the box so to speak. I think (but could be wrong) that if you used shutdown with a timer setting of 5 minutes it would still be able to shut the box down because it has priority. (if the runaway process is not a kernel bug) Somewhere I seem to remember someone talking about a process they have running on a server that looks for lockup situations and reboots the box if it finds one happening. Annoying as heck but possibly useful in this case. I've had lockups with 9.1 as described and but mine where all related to tmdns and the fact that /etc/hosts kept getting reset to 127.0.0.1 localhost instead of what I needed it to be. Removing tmdns from my box along with zcip (some zeroconf stuff) then manually making this as my hosts file 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 jamlap.linuxpda.biz jamlap Cured all the lockups I had associated with gnome and gnome applications. James
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