On Tuesday 08 May 2007 07:27, Sunny wrote:
> Hardlock - no console, no net, no ssh, nothing. Completely dead.
> Memory tested for 24 hours with memtest - OK. HDDs tested with their
> manufacturers diagnostic tools (full test) - OK.
>
> After the problems started, I updated the nvidia driver, no change.
>
> And ... it happens only in init 5, it does not happen in init 3. And I
> made it to reencode a couple of movies in init 3, so i have something
> to keep it busy.
I have a couple of ideas for you, and some comment...
... first, almost all intermittent problems are hardware--- like 99.9%
of
them. At this point I would be suspecting the video card--- memory or chip.
The nvidia geforce chips are famous for crapping out... because they are
usually surface mounted, and when they get hot they break free from their
mounting. (one possibility) The other possibility is that there is a memory
problem on the card... can cause the same kinds of flaky lock-ups that memory
problems cause on the bus. Bottom line, try another card.
The other thing you might want to look at is your xorg.conf file. I
have been
experimenting with my ATI setup and have been able to force my system to
"lock" (and I do mean locked... kernel is dead not even a panic), by changing
some of the settings (mouse, monitor, device) in xorg.conf. This is a
disturbing revelation for me... because in the unix environment *nothing*
should be able to bring the system down --- especially X... thats sounding
like Windoze. In other words, there may be problems with X and the server
may not be stable, or may not start, or my lock... but the system should
*never* go down because of it... so some serious breaches are occurring
somewhere (something is rotten in Denmark!). Obviously the the xserver code
is too closely linked to the hardware/kernel lately.
Unrelated to your problem... at the moment my ATI machine has two(2)
copies
of X running ... only after updating xorg and installing the ATI fglrx
driver for 3D support?? Well, it may be normal... but I can't prove it. It
probably is a problem... but I'm not finding much to help me figure it out.
Isn't X fun these days?
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M Harris <><
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