Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 10.4 desktop freezes
Hi,
Have you:
Run a disk check (fsck?) and checked the SMART status of your drives?
Run a RAM check - using the ful live CD, you can run that for a few hours and
tell you if your RAM is ok.
The above two have given me the same problem in the past.
The current thing giving me that problem is a rubbish graphics card, which I
notice getting to 98degC and has caused the computer to lock up, and the
screen to go blank. It replaced another rubbish grphics card which did the
same thing, but the screen remained visible, just didn't change.
cheers
Jon
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:44:17 pm you wrote:
I have a problem with an Ubuntu 10.4 desktop.
It regularly ends up unresposive, with a blank screen, often after being
left alone for a while, a few hours or overnight. But can happen while
using machine, where it just stops being able to respond to mouse or
keyboard with no recovery.
No response to keyboard or mouse.
[ctl] [alt] [backspace] has no effect.
Only able to recover by hard shutdown.
I initially thought it might be firefox so shut that down when I left
the machine, it still happened.
I removed some backup software that I no longer used incase I had
misconfigured it as at times I got a message on booting that /etc was
full and had a memory of /etc being the default place for creating some
backups. df did not show /etc was full. Still happens.
Reinstalled /, (have separate /home partition), still happens.
Output of dmesg after a restart contains many repeats of below sequence,
as does dmesg command output done at other times.
Is this a clue to something?
Are their other places that I should be looking?
[11017.517434] ata1.00: status: { DRDY DRQ }
[11017.517446] ata1: soft resetting link
[11017.868242] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[11017.868268] ata1: EH complete
[12817.481237] ata1: drained 32768 bytes to clear DRQ.
[12817.516675] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
frozen
[12817.516681] ata1.00: failed command: SMART
[12817.516689] ata1.00: cmd b0/d1:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0
pio 512 in
[12817.516690] res 58/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask
0x2 (HSM violation)
[12817.516694] ata1.00: status: { DRDY DRQ }
[12817.516705] ata1: soft resetting link
[12817.864267] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[12817.864297] ata1: EH complete
[14617.476629] ata1: drained 32768 bytes to clear DRQ.
[14617.512669] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
frozen
[14617.512676] ata1.00: failed command: SMART
[14617.512684] ata1.00: cmd b0/d1:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0
pio 512 in
[14617.512685] res 58/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask
0x2 (HSM violation)
[14617.512690] ata1.00: status: { DRDY DRQ }
[14617.512700] ata1: soft resetting link
[14617.860228] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[14617.860246] ata1: EH complete
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Re: [SLUG] NVIDIA and Fedora 14
Hi Heracles, This guide appears to do the trick. http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/fedora-14-nvidia-drivers-install-guide-disable-nouveau-driver/ Regards, Peter. On 02/14/2011 08:56 AM, Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Guys and Gals, My daughter has a problem in that she had to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 to get her new wireless card to work. Unfortunately the only disk I could find locally, when I visited, was Fedora 14 (she lives 500km away). As I am unfamiliar with Fedora I made the mistake of assuming that it would be as easy as Ubuntu and just did the change for her. All worked well EXCEPT that it had no provision to easily load the proprietary NVIDIA drivers so she has no 3D acceleration. I gave her the link: fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod and she followed the instruction but she ends up with the final comment nothing to do and no drivers are installed. Remembering that any instructions to her will be by phone or email: Is there a simple way to add the NVIDIA drivers to Fedora 14 or would it be easier just send her a Ubuntu 10.10 disk and have her install that? Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1YU58ACgkQybPcBAs9CE8b9wCfUcRMe5pVrSspaK7r4ehw94No uRYAnRtgMz8+XJIaS78pDeKB5kemPvi9 =+x4+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Finding modules..
DaZZa == DaZZa dagi...@gmail.com writes: DaZZa Learned folks... Can someone shed some light for me on finding DaZZa which kernel module is loaded/providing the eth0 interface? as root, do lspci -v It'll tell you which driver module is associated with each PCI device. -- Dr Peter Chubb peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia All things shall perish from under the sky/Music alone shall live, never to die -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Finding modules..
Just in case you've got a usb device, or other hardware type device... Running lshw as root (eg: sudo lshw), will provide you with the driver name as well as most everything else. Chris- On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Peter Chubb peter.ch...@nicta.com.au wrote: DaZZa == DaZZa dagi...@gmail.com writes: DaZZa Learned folks... Can someone shed some light for me on finding DaZZa which kernel module is loaded/providing the eth0 interface? as root, do lspci -v It'll tell you which driver module is associated with each PCI device. -- Dr Peter Chubb peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia All things shall perish from under the sky/Music alone shall live, never to die -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Finding modules..
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Peter Chubb peter.ch...@nicta.com.au wrote: DaZZa == DaZZa dagi...@gmail.com writes: DaZZa Learned folks... Can someone shed some light for me on finding DaZZa which kernel module is loaded/providing the eth0 interface? as root, do lspci -v It'll tell you which driver module is associated with each PCI device. It would, but apparently it isn't presented as a PCI device. ifconfig shows me the following seth0 Link Encap: Ethernet HWAddr : 00:15:5d:5a:fe:06 etc etc. Interestingly, the HWAddr is *not* the address of the physical NIC in the box. So, what's an seth0 device, and how do I get one? :-) DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Finding modules..
And in case this hasn't been answered enough, yet, the kernel module itself should log the interfaces it's handling when it loads. That will turn up in the kernel logs (RH places kernel logs from the last boot in /var/log/dmesg , or it'll be in /var/log/messages , or just run `dmesg`); just grep for eth0. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Finding modules..
On Monday 14 February 2011 11:23:54 Peter Chubb wrote: DaZZa == DaZZa dagi...@gmail.com writes: DaZZa Learned folks... Can someone shed some light for me on finding DaZZa which kernel module is loaded/providing the eth0 interface? as root, do lspci -v It'll tell you which driver module is associated with each PCI device. What he said, but if you don't know which hardware device eth0 is, also pay attention to the interrupt assigned to the device (the IRQ value in the third line). Since ifconfig shows you that as well (in the last line for the device), you can then match the hardware device to its name. -- Regards, Troy Rollo Solicitor Parry Carroll Commercial Lawyers Direct: (02) 8257 3177 Fax: (02) 9221 1375 Switch: (02) 9221 3899 E-mail: t...@parrycarroll.com.au Web: www.parrycarroll.com.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation This message and any attachments are confidential to Parry Carroll. If you have received it my mistake, please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system. You must not copy the message, alter it or disclose its contents to anyone. Thank you. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Finding modules..
Can someone shed some light for me on finding which kernel module is loaded/providing the eth0 interface? lsmod dmesg | grep eth HTH -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Finding modules..
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Peter Hardy pe...@hardy.dropbear.id.au wrote: And in case this hasn't been answered enough, yet, the kernel module itself should log the interfaces it's handling when it loads. That will turn up in the kernel logs (RH places kernel logs from the last boot in /var/log/dmesg , or it'll be in /var/log/messages , or just run `dmesg`); just grep for eth0. Bloody Microsoft can't do anything the easy way. :-) I found a Howto for centOS ahd RHEL, but it was ugly - install integration utilities, install kernel modules, recompile kernel - gave it up as a bad joke. I managed to work around it by telling HyperV to present a legacy network interface - which SuSE recognises as a Tulip card - good enough for the purpose. Thanks to those who made suggestions. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
