Hi Kevin, I had same symptoms end december. I use SuSE 8.0pro and same applications. For me system freezes when i was using OO calc opening MS xls files. I had seen that OO use great amount of memory (~400Mb for one file sized 0.5Mb in xls!!) I decided to test mem with memtest86 and remarked my second mem module was "bad". I test the system with only 256Mb (1 module) and it don't freeze thus i change the defficient mem and now there is no problem ( OO use always a great amount of mem but no hangs) Maybe it's the solution... Franz Le Lundi 13 Janvier 2003 17:56, Kevin McLauchlan a écrit :
All,
I installed 8.1 from DVD two+ months ago, on my home system. I normally use KDE3, KMail, OpenOffice 1.0.1, Opera or Mozilla... and not much else. I have my screensaver password protected. Most -- but not all -- failures occur while the screensaver is active.
I have had 37 crashes since going to 8.1 (previously I had 8.0, but I did a fresh install with formatting). The symptoms are: display freezes, keyboard and mouse stop responding.
1) How do I decide if it is exclusively X, and not some other aspect of Linux that is crashing?
2) Where should I start looking, to fix this?
I have been combing through /var/log, but I have not found anything interesting -- mostly because I don't know what I'm looking for. There's also a good chance that there's nothing to find, because no disk activity takes place after the system hangs (so, probably failures aren't logged??).
I define a "crash" as "It stopped and I can't make it work anymore." When the display is frozen, and there is no response to keyboard and mouse, I press the hardware reset switch. Is there another way?
The system has run for as long as four days without a crash, but I've also had two crashes in one day, more than once, so it averages a complete failure every two days.
The sdb and the Unofficial SuSE FAQ did not seem to address this issue. I'm writing this from my office. Last night, at home, I was in the process of writing this message and saying "it seems to occur when I have two X sessions open [Ctrl][F7] and [Ctrl][F8]", but then the system crashed while I was typing... and I had only the one session open. So, I don't know.
How would you approach diagnosing this problem? The same computer had 8.0 on it for the previous year, and didn't have any of that kind of crash. It started within 3 days of the new install in late October. YaST did not indicate any hardware problems during install. In fact it was the smoothest installation ever. What's wrong? I consider this a fairly significant problem.
/kevin
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