Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[Anders Jarnberg <linuxdude@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I need some assistance with my brand new 8.2 Pro system.

Until a few days ago I ran 8.1 Pro and was happy.
Then 8.2 came out, and for some reason I decided I wanted to
upgrade.
I did a clean install of 8.2 Pro and everything looked ok. But after
a few hours my system was hung/frozen. I restarted it and let it
run overnight with no apps running. Hung again. Looked in log files
and can see nothing special. The last thing I see is in /var/messages
where it's a MARK entry from cron. But nothing in the other files.
And by freezing I mean solid. Nothing short of a PWR Reset will make
it move again.
Nothing has changed since 8.1 hardwarewise, I have:
AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz
640 MB RAM
40 GB Samsung HD
Asus DVD-ROM
Plextor CD burner
ATI Radeon 8500
Soundblaster Live 5.1
Intel Express NIC 10/100

I've tried both with and without ReiserFS, ext3, acpi, apm,
dma. A couple of reinstalls to make sure everything is proper.
I'm currently running with ext3 and all the "fancy" options
off and vga=normal. Athlon kernel and the CPU temp is 40-50C.

Looking in Google and this list archive I don't find any really
good ideas as to solving my problem that I haven't tried.
Any suggestions as to what else I can try before either going
back to 8.1 or turning it all into ext2 ? (How long would a fs check
take for 40GB on ext2?)

Anyway, it's a lesson learned to not upgrade just because there is
something newer available :-)


thanks in advance,
Anders