[SLE] Random lock up of machine
Hope someone can point me in the right direction... I just installed SuSE 7.0 on my workstation this weekend. (Having Fun!) [system hardware description] Processor=200MHz MMX w/ 64Meg RAM Motherboard=Asus w/build in SCSI I/F Hard Drives=2 IDE (hda and hdb - mostly Windows95 files) 1 SCSI sda1 - swap sda2 - ext2 mounted at /boot sda5 - ReiserFS mounted at / sda7 - ext2 mounted at /home Network=3COM 3C905 Sound=Sound Blaster Vibra PNP [system software description] SuSE 7.0 KDE (default install with LOTS of programs added... base + development) Not set up for firewall or routing. Now, it randomly freezes (locks up), requiring a hardware reset to restore. This is either while working in KDE -OR- logged in as root on a console (KDE is still running, I'm just not using it at that moment.) No keyboard input accepted. No mouse. Ctrl-alt-del does not work. When I had sendmail turned on, the boot process would stop when sendmail started (happened twice). Sadly, turning off the sendmail did allow it to boot but did not stop the random freeze. Has anyone heard of a way to debug this kind of stuff? This is my first use of a Reiser file system so I'm curious if that could be the problem. Then again, KDE is new too. I just have no idea... cannot find any logs to indicate what happened. I hate to start uninstalling stuff (or reformat my root partition as ext2) and praying it won't randomly freeze anymore. Suggestions/solutions gratefully accepted :-D Eric ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Eric Allan Lucas wrote:
Hope someone can point me in the right direction...
I just installed SuSE 7.0 on my workstation this weekend. (Having Fun!) [system hardware description] Processor=200MHz MMX w/ 64Meg RAM Motherboard=Asus w/build in SCSI I/F Hard Drives=2 IDE (hda and hdb - mostly Windows95 files) 1 SCSI sda1 - swap sda2 - ext2 mounted at /boot sda5 - ReiserFS mounted at / sda7 - ext2 mounted at /home Network=3COM 3C905 Sound=Sound Blaster Vibra PNP [system software description] SuSE 7.0 KDE (default install with LOTS of programs added... base + development) Not set up for firewall or routing.
Now, it randomly freezes (locks up), requiring a hardware reset to restore. This is either while working in KDE -OR- logged in as root on a console (KDE is still running, I'm just not using it at that moment.) No keyboard input accepted. No mouse. Ctrl-alt-del does not work.
When I had sendmail turned on, the boot process would stop when sendmail started (happened twice). Sadly, turning off the sendmail did allow it to boot but did not stop the random freeze.
Has anyone heard of a way to debug this kind of stuff? This is my first use of a Reiser file system so I'm curious if that could be the problem. Then again, KDE is new too. I just have no idea... cannot find any logs to indicate what happened. I hate to start uninstalling stuff (or reformat my root partition as ext2) and praying it won't randomly freeze anymore.
Suggestions/solutions gratefully accepted :-D
Eric
Last one I had like that was a bad cpu. I doubt if it's reiser. The problems I had with it didn't cause any lockups. How about an irq conflict? Could very well be hardware. That bad cpu mentioned above ran windows fine. Intermittantly locked up linux hard. Sounds like hardware to me but thats just a guess. Good luck.. -- Mark Hounschell markh@compro.net
Sounds like a misconfigures xserver to me.... JLK On Tuesday 23 January 2001 12:28, Mark Hounschell wrote:
Eric Allan Lucas wrote:
Hope someone can point me in the right direction...
I just installed SuSE 7.0 on my workstation this weekend. (Having Fun!) [system hardware description] Processor=200MHz MMX w/ 64Meg RAM Motherboard=Asus w/build in SCSI I/F Hard Drives=2 IDE (hda and hdb - mostly Windows95 files) 1 SCSI sda1 - swap sda2 - ext2 mounted at /boot sda5 - ReiserFS mounted at / sda7 - ext2 mounted at /home Network=3COM 3C905 Sound=Sound Blaster Vibra PNP [system software description] SuSE 7.0 KDE (default install with LOTS of programs added... base + development) Not set up for firewall or routing.
Now, it randomly freezes (locks up), requiring a hardware reset to restore. This is either while working in KDE -OR- logged in as root on a console (KDE is still running, I'm just not using it at that moment.) No keyboard input accepted. No mouse. Ctrl-alt-del does not work.
When I had sendmail turned on, the boot process would stop when sendmail started (happened twice). Sadly, turning off the sendmail did allow it to boot but did not stop the random freeze.
Has anyone heard of a way to debug this kind of stuff? This is my first use of a Reiser file system so I'm curious if that could be the problem. Then again, KDE is new too. I just have no idea... cannot find any logs to indicate what happened. I hate to start uninstalling stuff (or reformat my root partition as ext2) and praying it won't randomly freeze anymore.
Suggestions/solutions gratefully accepted :-D
Eric
Last one I had like that was a bad cpu. I doubt if it's reiser. The problems I had with it didn't cause any lockups. How about an irq conflict? Could very well be hardware. That bad cpu mentioned above ran windows fine. Intermittantly locked up linux hard. Sounds like hardware to me but thats just a guess. Good luck..
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