Processor (CPU): AMD Phenom(tm) II X2 550 Processor Speed: 3.100,00 MHz Display info: Vendor: nVidia Corporation Model: GeForce 9400 GT 2D driver: nvidia 3D driver: NVIDIA 195.36.31 Free memory: 2,9 GiB (+ 683,7 MiB Caches) Free swap: 4,5 GiB I recognize your story. I did also done a clean install With the nouveau whas freezing every minute so i installed the nvidia driver via the yast and nvidiarepo. After some time it happens in totally different programs. I removed some widgets and it looks that it takes a longer time to happen. My cpu is not heating up I can hear it immediately on the fans they slow down. After sometime while i keep working the display freezes and the system takes no longer any input nor the keyboard nor the mouse. Then I have to push the reset button. The nepomuk server is disabled in my config. In the shutdown in console mode sometimes the shutdown freezes on different points, but most of the time on "eth0". Than I can wait but even after 5 minutes nothing happens til i touch the keyboard once and sometimes twice then the shutdown continues. regards, Hans On 28/07/10 10:01, C wrote:

I've finally upgraded my main computer to 11.3 w/KDE4 - actually a clean install of 11.3 in a fresh partition, and a new /home/$USER so nothing from 11.2 is interfering. I can still boot to 11.2 as a comparison.

The problem is... 11.3 is periodically freezing. The lock or freeze never lasts more than a few seconds, but its long enough that if I'm typing an email when it happens, several words won't be entered... when the lock/freeze happens my system fans go from idle to full power and I see a CPU spike start in my system monitor - I say start because the actual spike never gets shown on the graph since the computer is 100% unresponsive during the freeze.

I've rebooted to 11.2 and the symptoms do not show there (using a / partition on the same drive as the / for 11.3 and a common /home partition but different $USER), and the computer behaves completely as it should.

I've checked for things like Nepomuk indexing and other processes that might be loading up the computer... but cannot find anything. Nepomuk is off in the settings, but there always seems to be a Nepomukserver running.. as well as Akonadi even though I'm not using KMail... I thought Akonadi was assoicated only with KMail? Killing Nepomukserver and Akonadiserver doesn't seen to have much effect (why are they running in the first place?).

There is nothing I can see in the logs either, but that kind of makes sense since the computer is totally unresponsive during the 2 to 5 second freeze.... nothing is drawn on screen... keyboard buffer is not being filled... it's 100% gone for that period... so nothing seems to be writtne to the logs..

There is no heartbeat or regular pattern to the freezes either... it appears to be random.

Changes made since the clean install - full base update, added the Community repos and added a few extra apps (GStreamer, VLC, Thunderbird, VirtualBox, Wine, SpiderOak). I also installed the latest nVidia driver (which meant I had to set Kernel/No_KMS_IN_INITRD to yes, and add nomodeset brokenmodules=nouveau to Bootloader/DEFAULT_APPEND).

I'd suspect hardware, but rebooting to 11.2 and things hum along as normal (using the same hardware and adjacent / partitions).... so it appears to be something 11.3 specific... question is.. what? Whatever it is, it's making 11.3 virtually unusable for me on this machine (main server in the house for http, ftp, samba, nfs, ssh, as well as my main work computer).

Anyone else seeing something like this? Any ideas where I can look for the culprit that's causing this?

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On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 10:01 +0200, C wrote:

I've finally upgraded my main computer to 11.3 w/KDE4 - actually a clean install of 11.3 in a fresh partition, and a new /home/$USER so nothing from 11.2 is interfering. I can still boot to 11.2 as a comparison.

The problem is... 11.3 is periodically freezing. The lock or freeze never lasts more than a few seconds, but its long enough that if I'm typing an email when it happens, several words won't be entered... when the lock/freeze happens my system fans go from idle to full power and I see a CPU spike start in my system monitor - I say start because the actual spike never gets shown on the graph since the computer is 100% unresponsive during the freeze.

I've rebooted to 11.2 and the symptoms do not show there (using a / partition on the same drive as the / for 11.3 and a common /home partition but different $USER), and the computer behaves completely as it should.

I've checked for things like Nepomuk indexing and other processes that might be loading up the computer... but cannot find anything. Nepomuk is off in the settings, but there always seems to be a Nepomukserver running.. as well as Akonadi even though I'm not using KMail... I thought Akonadi was assoicated only with KMail? Killing Nepomukserver and Akonadiserver doesn't seen to have much effect (why are they running in the first place?).

There is nothing I can see in the logs either, but that kind of makes sense since the computer is totally unresponsive during the 2 to 5 second freeze.... nothing is drawn on screen... keyboard buffer is not being filled... it's 100% gone for that period... so nothing seems to be writtne to the logs..

There is no heartbeat or regular pattern to the freezes either... it appears to be random.

Changes made since the clean install - full base update, added the Community repos and added a few extra apps (GStreamer, VLC, Thunderbird, VirtualBox, Wine, SpiderOak). I also installed the latest nVidia driver (which meant I had to set Kernel/No_KMS_IN_INITRD to yes, and add nomodeset brokenmodules=nouveau to Bootloader/DEFAULT_APPEND).

I'd suspect hardware, but rebooting to 11.2 and things hum along as normal (using the same hardware and adjacent / partitions).... so it appears to be something 11.3 specific... question is.. what? Whatever it is, it's making 11.3 virtually unusable for me on this machine (main server in the house for http, ftp, samba, nfs, ssh, as well as my main work computer).

Anyone else seeing something like this? Any ideas where I can look for the culprit that's causing this?

C.

Hi, I don't know if this is the same issue as you have, but I have had a problem with 11.1 with about the same symptoms. I found it usually occured after I used acroread and then shut that program down. It seems to hang in the background using up processing power and causing the processor to heat up. Then the fan starts to cycle on and off. I just reboot the computer to get rid of the problem. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

C wrote:

The problem is... 11.3 is periodically freezing. The lock or freeze never lasts more than a few seconds, but its long enough that if I'm typing an email when it happens, several words won't be entered...

I encountered glitches (not real freezes) with my 11.2 system when using KDE (4.4) with compositing on and the background image changes. Does it also occur with a different WM and/or compositing off? Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin@royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8507 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin@astro.su.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Dne St 28. července 2010 10:01:58 C napsal(a):

I've finally upgraded my main computer to 11.3 w/KDE4 - actually a clean install of 11.3 in a fresh partition, and a new /home/$USER so nothing from 11.2 is interfering. I can still boot to 11.2 as a comparison.

The problem is... 11.3 is periodically freezing. The lock or freeze never lasts more than a few seconds, but its long enough that if I'm typing an email when it happens, several words won't be entered... when the lock/freeze happens my system fans go from idle to full power and I see a CPU spike start in my system monitor - I say start because the actual spike never gets shown on the graph since the computer is 100% unresponsive during the freeze.

Might be it is different issue, but after upgrade from 11.2 to 11.3 (KDE4), I face freezing, especially when computer is doing nothing, just showing screensaver. Content of ~/ is same as in 11.2 where I had no such problems. Processor does not consume much, computer (ThinkPad) just freezes. I have to hold power button and then wait at least 5 minutes - when I turn it on immediately, after GRUB I see only black screen and computer does really nothing. Strange. Very strange... Any idea what it could be?

I've rebooted to 11.2 and the symptoms do not show there (using a / partition on the same drive as the / for 11.3 and a common /home partition but different $USER), and the computer behaves completely as it should.

I've checked for things like Nepomuk indexing and other processes that might be loading up the computer... but cannot find anything. Nepomuk is off in the settings, but there always seems to be a Nepomukserver running.. as well as Akonadi even though I'm not using KMail... I thought Akonadi was assoicated only with KMail? Killing Nepomukserver and Akonadiserver doesn't seen to have much effect (why are they running in the first place?).

There is nothing I can see in the logs either, but that kind of makes sense since the computer is totally unresponsive during the 2 to 5 second freeze.... nothing is drawn on screen... keyboard buffer is not being filled... it's 100% gone for that period... so nothing seems to be writtne to the logs..

There is no heartbeat or regular pattern to the freezes either... it appears to be random.

Changes made since the clean install - full base update, added the Community repos and added a few extra apps (GStreamer, VLC, Thunderbird, VirtualBox, Wine, SpiderOak). I also installed the latest nVidia driver (which meant I had to set Kernel/No_KMS_IN_INITRD to yes, and add nomodeset brokenmodules=nouveau to Bootloader/DEFAULT_APPEND).

I'd suspect hardware, but rebooting to 11.2 and things hum along as normal (using the same hardware and adjacent / partitions).... so it appears to be something 11.3 specific... question is.. what? Whatever it is, it's making 11.3 virtually unusable for me on this machine (main server in the house for http, ftp, samba, nfs, ssh, as well as my main work computer).

Anyone else seeing something like this? Any ideas where I can look for the culprit that's causing this?

C. -- Vojtěch Zeisek

Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://web.natur.cuni.cz/~zeisek/

Am Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2010, 10:01:58 schrieb C:

I've finally upgraded my main computer to 11.3 w/KDE4 - actually a clean install of 11.3 in a fresh partition, and a new /home/$USER so nothing from 11.2 is interfering. I can still boot to 11.2 as a comparison.

The problem is... 11.3 is periodically freezing. The lock or freeze never lasts more than a few seconds, but its long enough that if I'm typing an email when it happens, several words won't be entered... when the lock/freeze happens my system fans go from idle to full power and I see a CPU spike start in my system monitor - I say start because the actual spike never gets shown on the graph since the computer is 100% unresponsive during the freeze.

Changes made since the clean install - full base update, added the Community repos and added a few extra apps (GStreamer, VLC, Thunderbird, VirtualBox, Wine, SpiderOak). I also installed the latest nVidia driver (which meant I had to set Kernel/No_KMS_IN_INITRD to yes, and add nomodeset brokenmodules=nouveau to Bootloader/DEFAULT_APPEND).

If it would not happen with the binary nvidia driver I would guess you are seeing http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597078 but maybe you are just the first to encounter it with the binary nvidia driver. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org