On Sunday 15 August 2010 11:07:42 C wrote:
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:00, John Bennett wrote:
Have been running 11.3 x64 KDE since it was released, with all patches, and must say that generally am very happy with it. But.... Don't know what the prob is, but very intermittently and seemingly randomly, I get an "almost total" lockup - X totally locks, on 1 occasion I did get back to a command prompt, but then seemed to lose keyboard access.... My initial thought is that I have an issue with either Firefox or Thunderbird, which have their data sitting on a vfat partition, and this always wants to check after this happens and a reboot - but are they causing the prob, or a result of..? Anybody else having these issues, or should I start looking at local hardware? (Have run some quick test, but there appear to be no probs)
It could be one of these frequently-seen regressions in the intel video driver * https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617530 (random lockups with intel) * https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612413 (lockups with xrandr with intel - NB following Stefan's advice here to force the older intellegacy driver with nomodeset works around the bug, at the cost of some repaint problems with compositing enabled. * https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620157 (lockups with intel and fullscreen flash)
If you can ssh in from another machine, run top and watch Xorg (someone else here suggested I do this when I had similar issues with my 11.3 install). Is Xorg eating up 100% CPU?
The "solution" I've been suggesting to everyone who has encountered this is to bump up to the 2.6.35 kernel from Kernel:Head
I tried this too but the current 2.6.35 fails to detect my thinkpad's ethernet card. A smaller increment is to try Kernel:openSUSE-11.3 which will be the next online update kernel and includes fixes backported to 2.6.34. You can also try disabling Desktop Effects. If you read 617350's upstream Xorg bug report the developers mention that transparency seems to be one of the triggers. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org