Random lockups/freezes when running 64-bit SUSE 9.3
Hello all, Before going into the problem at hand let me say that my desktop computer was working as it should running SUSE 9.2, which was installed on the machine before I upgraded to SUSE 9.3. Now to the problem. As the title indicates I have been experiencing lockups after upgrading my AMD64 desktop machine to 64-bit SUSE 9.3. This all started when I wanted to configure my USB Linksys wireless card (WUSB11 v2.8) on my desktop. I needed to configure it to access the internet. So, like I did when I installed SUSE 9.2 in the past, I installed the wireless-tools and atmel-firmware rpms, and plugged the WUSB11 into a USB port on my desktop. Using 'dmesg' I saw that the atmel firmware got uploaded to the WUSB11. So the system recognized the WUSB11 as it had done when I was running 9.2. Then I went into the network module in Yast2 and setup the wireless connection. After that I needed to unplug and plug the WUSB11 to get it to start to connect to my router, but as it was about the get an IP from my router the computer froze. At first I did not know what the problem was, so I tried to install different versions of the atmel-firmware rpm, both the one that came with 9.2 (and had worked previously) and the most recent one from the homepage of the atmel-firmware project. Still the computer froze when the WUSB11 was about to get an IP from my router. Next I thought that maybe the dhcp client on SUSE 9.3 was to blame so I hardwired a particular IP to WUSB11 when setting up the connection in the network module in Yast2 to bypass it. This did the trick, I was finally able to get online, without the machine locking up. This is currently the only way I know how to get the computer online using the WUSB11. This however was to be a short victory, since about a half an hour after getting online for the first time, while surfing the net, the computer locked up again. This time, I was not doing anything specific, just browsing the web through the wireless connection. I thought that maybe this was a one off thing, but this has happened multiple times after that incident. As I said in the first paragraph, everything was working well when running SUSE 9.2 on the same hardware and using the same WUSB11 device to access the internet. Also, the machine is a dual boot machine, and everything is working fine in windows. So what would be my next steps in debugging this problem. Currently, I have no idea what is causing the lockups, or why even the dhcp should be causing lockups when I'm not bypassing that by hardwiring the IP. Any suggestions to logs or something of that sort that I should be looking at are welcome, 'cause I sure as hell don't know what should be my next steps. Regards, Valur Olafsson
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 15:25, Valur Olafsson wrote:
Hello all,
Before going into the problem at hand let me say that my desktop computer was working as it should running SUSE 9.2, which was installed on the machine before I upgraded to SUSE 9.3.
Now to the problem. As the title indicates I have been experiencing lockups after upgrading my AMD64 desktop machine to 64-bit SUSE 9.3. This all started when I wanted to configure my USB Linksys wireless card (WUSB11 v2.8) on my desktop. I needed to configure it to access the internet. So, like I did when I installed SUSE 9.2 in the past, I installed the wireless-tools and atmel-firmware rpms, and plugged the WUSB11 into a USB port on my desktop. Using 'dmesg' I saw that the atmel firmware got uploaded to the WUSB11. So the system recognized the WUSB11 as it had done when I was running 9.2. Then I went into the network module in Yast2 and setup the wireless connection. After that I needed to unplug and plug the WUSB11 to get it to start to connect to my router, but as it was about the get an IP from my router the computer froze.
At first I did not know what the problem was, so I tried to install different versions of the atmel-firmware rpm, both the one that came with 9.2 (and had worked previously) and the most recent one from the homepage of the atmel-firmware project. Still the computer froze when the WUSB11 was about to get an IP from my router. Next I thought that maybe the dhcp client on SUSE 9.3 was to blame so I hardwired a particular IP to WUSB11 when setting up the connection in the network module in Yast2 to bypass it. This did the trick, I was finally able to get online, without the machine locking up. This is currently the only way I know how to get the computer online using the WUSB11.
This however was to be a short victory, since about a half an hour after getting online for the first time, while surfing the net, the computer locked up again. This time, I was not doing anything specific, just browsing the web through the wireless connection. I thought that maybe this was a one off thing, but this has happened multiple times after that incident.
As I said in the first paragraph, everything was working well when running SUSE 9.2 on the same hardware and using the same WUSB11 device to access the internet. Also, the machine is a dual boot machine, and everything is working fine in windows.
So what would be my next steps in debugging this problem. Currently, I have no idea what is causing the lockups, or why even the dhcp should be causing lockups when I'm not bypassing that by hardwiring the IP. Any suggestions to logs or something of that sort that I should be looking at are welcome, 'cause I sure as hell don't know what should be my next steps.
Regards, Valur Olafsson
Well, Valur, to make your debugging efforts more complicated, I do see random freezes on a HP AMD64 notebook. similar to you, I'm online, using a wireless CDMA connection through a Sierra PCMCIA card. It freezes completely, not even a ping gets answered anymore. It happened about 3 times now in the last 10 days, and yes, it did not happen with 9.2. It always happens when I'm in konqui browsing the web, but after 3 freezes that is not enough to blame anything or anyone. Let's see if anyone else is seeing this, and if we can find any similarities. Right now, I do have no idea how to debug it. Besides that, 9.3 is great! The first Linux which has my notebook configured correctly with the weird screen size of 1280 x 800 and the Alps touchpad, even the touchpad scroll area is working. Regards, Matt
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