Hi, and sorry for the long email.
Let me start with a summary:
1) I've had the computer reboot into console without any error
messages and then I couldn't log on!!!
I tried as root and as a user on tty1, tty2, tty4, tty6 and then I
gave up, resorted to the sysrq sequence and I had no problems on the
next reboot.
2) I've had the computer boot into X directly and the login manager
fails (kdm/gdm) and the computer goes down into runlevel 3, or the
login manager doesn't fail, but is >>extremely<< slow, KDE takes 15
min. to start. In the second case, I also couldn't login on tty1-6 to
kill X.
3) I've had the computer boot into X directly and have been able to
log on and work without any problems and then suddenly X dies on me
and I get the login manager again.
I have no idea whether this is one or many problems with hardware or
software. I'm up to date on security patches up to and including
kdelibs from June 27. These are fairly serious problems which make an
otherwise wonderful version of Mandrake difficult for me to use.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks,
Narfi.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ps. I've been using Mandrake for 4 weeks now and I love it! Too bad it keeps
crashing on me without telling me why.
Details:
Hardware:
Celeron 466 MHz, Intel QS440BX, Award BIOS 2.09,
Primary Master: IBM drive, boot drive, Windoze only + lilo
Primary Slave: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI
Secondary Master: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1212
Secondary Slave: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100
Controller card: SIIG Ultra ATA 66
On that card is: WD 400BB, set to DMA 33 both on the card and on the drive.
This drive is linux only.
Graphics card: ATI Xpert 2000.
Network card: Linksys LNE 100TX
Sound: Yamaha YMF-724 Addonics SV550
TV card: Win-TV GO.
Monitor: Viewsonic E771
Printer: HP Deskjet 832C connected through USB.
and a PS-2 scroll mouse and a 102-keyboard
When I emailed the list about problem 3) I got the suggestion to make
sure the graphics card had its own interrupt so I moved the network
card to avoid having the two cards share an irq. The problems still
persist.
Software:
The 2 GPL Mandrake 8.0 CDs. The MD5 sum was ok, the install was
without problems. I use KDE, and I've tried both kdm and gdm as the
login managers, but I've experienced the X crash with both of them.
I have jserver/wnn, the tiny firewall, postfix + the standard services
such as usb, xfs etc.
Logs say:
Nothing that I can see to be relevant. I'll break this down by the
problem:
1) Then I can't log in to tty1-6, i.e. I type in my or root's user name
and password and the only thing that happens is that after approx. 1
min. the login prompt reappears.
None of the following contain any record of an attempted login:
/var/logs/messages, /var/logs/auth.log, /var/logs/login
2) Then kdm or gdm don't start properly on boot.
I couldn't find anything in the logs, that may or may not be due to my
record keeping.
3) If X crashes, /var/log/messages contains lines such as:
Jun 25 23:46:02 nic-41-c68-180 kdm[1388]: Server for display :0 terminated
unexpectedly: 1
Jun 25 23:46:03 nic-41-c68-180 kde(pam_unix)[3263]: session closed for user
narfi
Jun 28 01:43:59 nic-41-c68-180 gdm(pam_unix)[1394]: session closed for user
narfi
Jun 29 10:10:09 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[3019]: session closed for user narfi
Finally, dmesg after a successful reboot:
Linux version 2.4.3-20mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs
-1.1.2 release / Linux-Mandrake 8.0)) #1 Sun Apr 15 23:03:10 CEST 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000017ff0000 - 0000000017ff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000017ff3000 - 0000000018000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 98288
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 94192 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
hm, page 01000000 reserved twice.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=2101 hdd=ide-scsi
hdb=ide-floppy quiet
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdb=ide-floppy
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 467.735 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 933.88 BogoMIPS
Memory: 383872k/393152k available (976k kernel code, 8892k reserved, 287k
data, 696k init, 0k highme
m)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb2f0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe4000000, mapped to 0xd8800000, size 32768k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=33
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:4a0b
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
block: queued sectors max/low 254829kB/123757kB, 768 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
PCI: Enabling device 00:0f.0 (0005 -> 0007)
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:0f.0
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0f.1
HPT366: chipset revision 1
HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 79
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:0f.1
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0f.0
HPT366: chipset revision 1
HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xbc00-0xbc07, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: IBM-DJNA-371350, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1212, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: WDC WD400BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xa800-0xa807,0xac02 on irq 3
hda: 26520480 sectors (13578 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=1650/255/63, UDMA(33)
hde: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdb: No disk in drive
hdb: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hde: hde1 hde2 < hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 hde9 >
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Uncompressing....done.
Freeing initrd memory: 71k freed
Serial driver version 5.05 (2000-12-13) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP
enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=3
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 696k freed
Adding Swap: 255488k swap-space (priority -1)
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 9100 Rev: 1.0c
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
i2c-core.o: i2c core module
i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.7.62 loaded
bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:09.0
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:07.2
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.1
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0d.0
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 00:09.0, irq: 10, latency: 64, memory: 0xec008000
bttv0: subsystem: 0070:13eb => Hauppauge WinTV => card=10
bttv0: model: BT878(Hauppauge new (bt878)) [autodetected]
bttv0: enabling ETBF (430FX/VP3 compatibilty)
bttv0: Hauppauge msp34xx: reset line init
i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0.
bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: model=38101, tuner=Philips FI1236 MK2 (2), radio=no
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips:
tda9840,tda9873h,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951)
i2c-core.o: driver generic i2c audio driver registered.
i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered.
tuner: chip found @ 0x61
bttv0: i2c attach [Philips NTSC]
i2c-core.o: client [Philips NTSC] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0).
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.251 $ time 23:13:16 Apr 15 2001
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:07.2
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.0
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.1
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0d.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa000, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x3f0/0x404) is not claimed by any active
driver.
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: Disabling reads from problem bidirectional printer on usblp0
printer.c: usblp0: device node registration failed
printer.c: usblp0: USB Unidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 1
ip_tables: (c)2000 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack (3071 buckets, 24568 max)
Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ...
Winbond chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x87 devid=97 devrev=73 oldid=ff
Winbond chip type 83977TF / SMSC 97w33x/97w34x
Winbond LPT Config: cr_30=01 60,61=0378 70=07 74=03, f0=07
Winbond LPT Config: active=yes, io=0x0378 irq=7, dma=3
Winbond LPT Config: irqtype=pulsed low, high-Z, ECP fifo threshold=0
Winbond LPT Config: Port mode=ECP and EPP-1.7
SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ...
0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 16
0x378: readIntrThreshold is 16
0x378: PWord is 8 bits
0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x48
0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=<none or set by other means>
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.14d (April 3, 2001)
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:07.2
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.0
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.1
eth0: Lite-On PNIC-II rev 37 at 0xa400, 00:A0:CC:E2:3D:B0, IRQ 10.
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:11.0
ymfpci: YMF724F at 0xec000000 IRQ 5
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7605 (SigmaTel STAC9704)
Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ...
Winbond chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x87 devid=97 devrev=73 oldid=ff
Winbond chip type 83977TF / SMSC 97w33x/97w34x
Winbond LPT Config: cr_30=01 60,61=0378 70=07 74=03, f0=07
Winbond LPT Config: active=yes, io=0x0378 irq=7, dma=3
Winbond LPT Config: irqtype=pulsed low, high-Z, ECP fifo threshold=0
Winbond LPT Config: Port mode=ECP and EPP-1.7
SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ...
0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 16
0x378: readIntrThreshold is 16
0x378: PWord is 8 bits
0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x48
0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=<none or set by other means>
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.3-20mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
