Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 21:09:16 -0700, Pat Primate wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote earlier: [...] > > It looks like your X setup is OK as far as the graphics card is > > concerned (see my remarks below). Maybe the problem is in some weird way > > related to the pcspkr module which controls the sys

Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-15 Thread patprimate
> [ If you want to make sure that your messages show up in the correct > thread then you have to provide In-Reply-To headers. With your webmail > interface it is probably best to use "Reply-To-All" and then to remove > the email address of the original poster and to shift the list address >

Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
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Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-13 Thread patprimate
Thank you Florian and Kamaraju, I am impressed by the speed and helpfulness of the Debian-Users mailing list :) As for my system, I am completely up to date (clean install of 4.0r0) and the crash doesn't happen in the tty1 terminals, Only inside KDE/X11. I checked the bell settings in Konsole (sett

Subject: Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-12 Thread Patrick Primate
Ooops, sorry everyone, I accidently forgot to put the subject in my previous post. So if Florian or Kamaraju did not read my 'no subject' post (sent 2 minutes ago) please do so, I have responses to your questions :) Thanx pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:39:20 -0700, Pat Primate wrote: > I have an LG LW40-S3MU1 laptop and I'm new to Debian and I would love to > give her a good run, but I have run into a persistant problem. With a fresh > install (all software is original Etch 4.0r0 versions) if I open up a > virtua

Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-12 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Pat Primate wrote: > I have an LG LW40-S3MU1 laptop and I'm new to Debian and I would love to > give her a good run, but I have run into a persistant problem. With a > fresh install (all software is original Etch 4.0r0 versions) if I open > up a virtual terminal / terminal emulator (like konsole)

Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-12 Thread Pat Primate
I have an LG LW40-S3MU1 laptop and I'm new to Debian and I would love to give her a good run, but I have run into a persistant problem. With a fresh install (all software is original Etch 4.0r0 versions) if I open up a virtual terminal / terminal emulator (like konsole) and press one of the arr

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:18:05AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > are you sure its not a hardware issue? anything in the logs that > > points to the problem? Does it come out of the freeze or do you have > > to kill the whole box? > > Nothing in syslog, and no message i

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:13:52AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > > Does that tell you anything? > Nope. I fully expected to see DMA disabled on the drives. I'm clueless on this. > Actually I've found out that the bug happens only with the AMD K7 kernel > (linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7) but not with the i48

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-02 Thread Dan H.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > are you sure its not a hardware issue? anything in the logs that > points to the problem? Does it come out of the freeze or do you have > to kill the whole box? Nothing in syslog, and no message if the copying is done from the root console in single-user mode. This

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-02 Thread Dan H.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > are you sure its not a hardware issue? anything in the logs that > points to the problem? Does it come out of the freeze or do you have > to kill the whole box? Nothing in syslog, and no message if the copying is done from the root console in single-user mode. This

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-02 Thread Dan H.
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:57:53PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: >> Now my question is: For which package do I file a bug? Kernel? >> > My question is: What is the output of `hdparm /dev/hd?` or `hdparm > /dev/sd?` for each of the concerned drives ? kir:/home/dh# hdparm /dev/hd

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:57:53PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > Hello, > > whenever I copy large files (1.5GB and up) from one disk to another > (different physical disks, not just from one partition to another on the > same disk or within one partition), my system locks up completely. Not > just X and

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:57:53PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > > Now my question is: For which package do I file a bug? Kernel? > My question is: What is the output of `hdparm /dev/hd?` or `hdparm /dev/sd?` for each of the concerned drives ? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.c

System freeze when copying files

2007-02-01 Thread Dan H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, whenever I copy large files (1.5GB and up) from one disk to another (different physical disks, not just from one partition to another on the same disk or within one partition), my system locks up completely. Not just X and stuff; the console as

Re: System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:21:23PM +, andy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:59:14PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >>> > >>These kind of errors (hard freeze) are often either bugs in drivers or > >>faulty hardware. Kind of hard to diagnose, but one way t

Re: System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-16 Thread andy
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 07:29 +, andy wrote: If it is a driver bug are you thinking driver for the DVD reader, and if so then do you have any ideas on a fix? (Please respond back to the list and not to me directly.) Possibly bugs in the drivers for motherboard

Re: System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-16 Thread andy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:59:14PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:23 +, andy wrote: If I have one snag though it is this: there are occasions (irregular) when I will eject one DVD to replace it with another, close the drawer with

Re: System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 07:29 +, andy wrote: > If it is a driver bug are you thinking driver for the DVD reader, and > if so then do you have any ideas on a fix? (Please respond back to the list and not to me directly.) Possibly bugs in the drivers for motherboard chipset, but that's just an un

Re: System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:59:14PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:23 +, andy wrote: > > If I have one snag though it is this: there are occasions (irregular) > > when I will eject one DVD to replace it with another, close the drawer > > with the new media in it and th

Re: System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:23 +, andy wrote: > If I have one snag though it is this: there are occasions (irregular) > when I will eject one DVD to replace it with another, close the drawer > with the new media in it and then the system will hard freeze - the > keyboard, mouse and power button

System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-12 Thread andy
Hi all I've been using Etch for a number of weeks now and am *so* really very satisfied and happy with it that I am going to be installing it on my partner's machine, replacing a long tradition of Slackware usage. Well done developers. If I have one snag though it is this: there are occasion

Re: System Freeze w/audio CDs

2006-12-11 Thread the_mantager
Alex Austin wrote: > What CD player program are you using? Does it freeze as soon as you stick > the disk in? If so, what desktop are you using? KDE? Gnome? XFCE? Can you > play other sounds/music files? Can you rip audio with CDParanoia? Which > optical drive do you have? > > On 12/4/06, Baz <[EM

Re: [Thinkpad] System Freeze w/audio CDs

2006-12-04 Thread Alex Austin
What CD player program are you using? Does it freeze as soon as you stick the disk in? If so, what desktop are you using? KDE? Gnome? XFCE? Can you play other sounds/music files? Can you rip audio with CDParanoia? Which optical drive do you have? On 12/4/06, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello

Re: System Freeze w/audio CDs

2006-12-04 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 08:50:45 -0800 Baz wrote: > I installed "etch" on a Z60t Thinkpad a few days ago. Now, the entire > system freezes when I attempt to play an audio CD. Although I'm new > to Linux, this sounds major; as in, I'll likely need to reinstall > it. Of course, the experience, which l

System Freeze w/audio CDs

2006-12-04 Thread Baz
Hello. I installed "etch" on a Z60t Thinkpad a few days ago. Now, the entire system freezes when I attempt to play an audio CD. Although I'm new to Linux, this sounds major; as in, I'll likely need to reinstall it. Of course, the experience, which leads me to this assessment comes from working

Re: SunBlade150 (Sparc64) random system freeze

2006-11-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 04:39:23PM +0530, Nishant Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Debian Testing on SunBlade150 with kernel 2.6.16. It used > to run kernel 2.6.8 before the upgrade. Irrespective of the kernel > version, I am facing system freezing randomly with no traces in any of > the logs.

SunBlade150 (Sparc64) random system freeze

2006-11-24 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi, I am running Debian Testing on SunBlade150 with kernel 2.6.16. It used to run kernel 2.6.8 before the upgrade. Irrespective of the kernel version, I am facing system freezing randomly with no traces in any of the logs. Many times system keeps running for 40 days and many times it will just ha

Re: audio cd and system freeze

2006-11-06 Thread Victor Munoz
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:48:15PM +0100, Michael Ott wrote: > > > > Anyway, that's the situation. Any help? Thanks in advance, > Problems with cdparanoia. Downgrade and it works > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391901 > Ok, I'm not alone. Thanks for the tip! [Though probab

Re: audio cd and system freeze

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Victor! > Hello. I'm having various problems related to audio cd. I'm using a T43 with > sid installed. Here is a list of the symptoms: > > - If logged into my gnome session, I insert an audio cd and the system > freezes completely. I hear the sound of the cd when it is being recognized > b

audio cd and system freeze

2006-11-06 Thread Victor Munoz
Hello. I'm having various problems related to audio cd. I'm using a T43 with sid installed. Here is a list of the symptoms: - If logged into my gnome session, I insert an audio cd and the system freezes completely. I hear the sound of the cd when it is being recognized by the system. An "Audio CD"

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! > > > When you say couldn't read DVDs, do you mean that you couldn't mount a > > > data DVD, couldn't watch a movie, or couldn't mount a movie DVD? > > > > Hi Doug, > > > > The answer is "yes" :) The original drive reacted to movie DVDs and > > DVD-RWs by buzzing and whirring > > for a

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:38:44PM -0800, jantzen wrote: > > When you say couldn't read DVDs, do you mean that you couldn't mount a > > data DVD, couldn't watch a movie, or couldn't mount a movie DVD? > > Hi Doug, > > The answer is "yes" :) The original drive reacted to movie DVDs and DVD-RWs >

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread jantzen
> When you say couldn't read DVDs, do you mean that you couldn't mount a > data DVD, couldn't watch a movie, or couldn't mount a movie DVD? Hi Doug, The answer is "yes" :) The original drive reacted to movie DVDs and DVD-RWs by buzzing and whirring for a little while before giving up, sometimes

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:12:57PM -0800, jantzen wrote: > Ugh, that would truly be lame. This is the replacement drive for the > original, which I RMA'd because it couldn't read DVDs (didn't crash the > system though). > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 19:47 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > > > > > > My

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread jantzen
Ugh, that would truly be lame. This is the replacement drive for the original, which I RMA'd because it couldn't read DVDs (didn't crash the system though). Hopefully the fact that this one is failing differently means it's not something outside of the drive that would require sending the whole t

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze (Correction, not mounting)

2006-10-29 Thread jantzen
Okay, point taken about the term "mount". What I mean is that inserting a normal CD into the drive causes the machine to lock up. I'm not trying to do anything interesting with the disc like rip tracks off of it; Gnome merely tries to access it and the machine seizes. On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 16:43

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 16:42 -0800, jantzen wrote: > Hi All, > > My system is unable to mount music CDs. I can read DVD's and CD-Rs, > however music CD's cause the entire system to lock up when they're > mounted. I'm unable even to ping the machine after this occurs. This is almost certainly har

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 16:42 -0800, jantzen wrote: > Hi All, > > My system is unable to mount music CDs. neither does mine. :) cd's dont have a mountable filesystem on them. (nor any kind of filesystem). they have raw data, so-to-speak. if you want to use them as files, you need to 'rip' the cd.

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:42:58PM -0800, jantzen wrote: > My system is unable to mount music CDs. You don't mount an audio CD. There's no reason to even try, as they don't have a filesystem on them. Why trying to apparently hangs up your box, I have no idea. -- Marc Wilson | You can't ki

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:42:58PM -0800, jantzen wrote: > My system is unable to mount music CDs. I can read DVD's and CD-Rs, > however music CD's cause the entire system to lock up when they're > mounted. Music CDs can't be mounted; they don't have a filesystem on them. You can either play t

Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread jantzen
Hi All, My system is unable to mount music CDs. I can read DVD's and CD-Rs, however music CD's cause the entire system to lock up when they're mounted. I'm unable even to ping the machine after this occurs. Debian version: testing Kernel: 2.6.17-2-amd64 DVD-RW: Pioneer DVR-K05 I've tried taili

Re: System freeze with kernels after 2.6.12

2006-10-02 Thread Harry Mofo
On Thu September 28 2006 17:08, Harry Mofo wrote: > I've been running Sarge, then Etch on this system for a couple years. > It has been happily running 2.6.12-1 for a while but any attempt to use > newer kernels has resulted in the system freezing - requiring a hardware > reset. Keyboard is nonfun

System freeze with kernels after 2.6.12

2006-09-28 Thread Harry Mofo
I've been running Sarge, then Etch on this system for a couple years. It has been happily running 2.6.12-1 for a while but any attempt to use newer kernels has resulted in the system freezing - requiring a hardware reset. Keyboard is nonfunctional except numlock will turn off (but not back on). S

Kernel 2.6: Complete system freeze on `ifup eth0`

2005-10-24 Thread Ivo Marino
art). I've investigated a bit and discovered that the command ifup eth0 (ifconfig eth0 ) is the cause of the complete system freeze. The freeze does not return a kernel panic or similar, the console just hangs (I can't switch to other TTYs) and only a full-reset allows me to reboot the sys

Re: Adaptec 2100S: System freeze when trying to backup with tar

2004-10-05 Thread Cristian Livadaru
Citat Marc Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Try using the "dpt_i2o" driver (Adaptec I2O RAID support) instead of the > i2o_* modules. > > Marc > that's the one I'm using. sorry for the poor information, had no conection to my server and didn't remember everything. here is all information about m

Re: Adaptec 2100S: System freeze when trying to backup with tar

2004-10-05 Thread Marc Mueller
Hi, I recently installed a Adaptec 2100S SCSI HW Raid controler and two HD which are mirroerd. Kernel version is 2.4.22-ow1 and I compiled the i2o module to the kernel and I thought that everyithing works fine, well actualz it does work perfect till I start a tar. After a short while the system jus

Re: Adaptec 2100S: System freeze when trying to backup with tar

2004-10-05 Thread Cristian Livadaru
Citat Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:31:17 +0200, Cristian Livadaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, I recently installed a Adaptec 2100S SCSI HW Raid controler and two HD > which > > are mirroerd. > > Kernel version is 2.4.22-ow1 and I compiled the i2o mod

Re: Adaptec 2100S: System freeze when trying to backup with tar

2004-10-05 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:31:17 +0200, Cristian Livadaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I recently installed a Adaptec 2100S SCSI HW Raid controler and two HD which > are mirroerd. > Kernel version is 2.4.22-ow1 and I compiled the i2o module to the kernel and I > thought that everyithing works fi

Adaptec 2100S: System freeze when trying to backup with tar

2004-10-05 Thread Cristian Livadaru
Hi, I recently installed a Adaptec 2100S SCSI HW Raid controler and two HD which are mirroerd. Kernel version is 2.4.22-ow1 and I compiled the i2o module to the kernel and I thought that everyithing works fine, well actualz it does work perfect till I start a tar. After a short while the system ju

Re: [SOLVED] System freeze after random program crashes associated with kernel oops

2003-06-17 Thread Kristoffer Erlandsson
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:38:20PM +0200, Kristoffer Erlandsson wrote: > I'm guessing time will tell if this memory module was the only/real > problem. I will reply here after I've tested the computer and am sure, > so you all get to know how it went. Hello again, Now my computer has been running

Re: System freeze after random program crashes associated withkernel oops

2003-06-13 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 12:38 Uhr +0200 12.06.2003, Kristoffer Erlandsson wrote: I'm guessing time will tell if this memory module was the only/real problem. I will reply here after I've tested the computer and am sure, so you all get to know how it went. FYI: there are two kernel patches for coping with bad RAM: http

Re: System freeze after random program crashes associated with kernel oops

2003-06-12 Thread Kristoffer Erlandsson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:12:48PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:43:55AM +0200, Kristoffer Erlandsson wrote: > [...] > > | Western Digital IDE ATA-100 60GB 7200RPM 2MB cache (WD600BB) (Running > | one ntfs partition and one ext2 with the operating system in quest

Re: System freeze after random program crashes associated with kernel oops

2003-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:43:55AM +0200, Kristoffer Erlandsson wrote: [...] | Western Digital IDE ATA-100 60GB 7200RPM 2MB cache (WD600BB) (Running | one ntfs partition and one ext2 with the operating system in question | on) Are you, by any chance, trying to read from the NTFS partit

System freeze after random program crashes associated with kernel oops

2003-06-10 Thread Kristoffer Erlandsson
Hello, I installed Linux again a couple of months ago, had been running Windows for a while. Ever since that I have had a problem with random system crashes. These crashes occur very randomly in time, the computer may have been running for between 5 miuntes and 10 days. However, they most often oc

Re: System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:09:45 +0200, Oliver Korff writes: >> Run memtest86 for a night or somesuch. > >It didn't take the night, the second test showed the bad ram. >!AAAggghhh! > >Before I'm going to have a screwdriver session I wanted to say: "thanx" (and >I was so shure, because I tested t

Re: System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Oliver Korff
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Re: System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Oliver Korff
I think its from the hard-reset I made, to get the system booting. But I will try the memtest, did it some months ago. Oliver -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design somelthing completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Mostly Harmless

Re: System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:50:25 +0200, Oliver Korff writes: >today I come to my home Workstation and its locked up. Thats worring me >because it happened two days before at the same time. Research at the web >told me there is a bug report out about anacron (but closed). >The anacron package was de

System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Oliver Korff
Hi, today I come to my home Workstation and its locked up. Thats worring me because it happened two days before at the same time. Research at the web told me there is a bug report out about anacron (but closed). The anacron package was dealt with some days ago, and recently changed. System: ke

Multitasking and system freeze

1996-12-30 Thread Ricardas Cepas
Hello, I often encounter the following problem: when system is heavily loaded, the speed drops unproportionally fast and system gets frozen completely (for example, when I receive more mail). Ctrl+Alt+Del stops working. Some test I performed on 486SX, 4MB

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