Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2086 mails)

["Brandon Carl" <spleeyah@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Don't be. When I've had problems like this, it almost always turned out
> > to be hardware. I'd check memory first. Let memtest86 run for a while

I'm not familiar with memtest86, how would I run it?
> > on it. If that turns out OK, my next suggestion would be the power
> > supply. Unless you have a way to test it, putting another one in is

I am pretty sure it is not the power supply, because it has been running 
worry free for a while now.
> > about the easiest solution to see it the lockups go away. It could also
> > be a drive going bad.

I have a software RAID 1 array if this is the case, which I sure hope it 
isn't.  When I hard reset the machine after lockup, it "replays 
transactions," which I think, from what I've heard, means that the hard 
drive was trying to written to, or something along those lines.  It usually 
averages about 700 transactions "replayed" after a hard reset.
> >
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> >
> Also, if it is hardware, try giving the boot parameter of "noapic" when
> your system boot. In a lot of situations I have found the "advanced
> programmable interrupt controller" not to be very advanced at all.
My system already boots with the noapic command normally.

The only other thing I could think of was maybe it was overheating, so I 
clocked the processor down a little bit.  It is a sempron 2800+ machine 
running at 2.0 Ghz. (Stock 1.7 Ghz).  The airflow on the machine isn't the 
best, but it hasn't choked out before.  Could this be a valid reason for it 
to lock up?

Also, are there any logs or anything I can look at to tell me the source of 
the problem?

It decides randomly to lock up, with no particular pattern.  The only thing 
I can think of that has been consistent is that the HDD light on the case is 
completely off whenever it freezes.

Thanks for your help!
--
Brandon 

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