[opensuse] 12.3 crashes
In the 4 hours that I have had 12.3 installed on this system, it has crashed twice, requiring a power down & up to recover. Both times I was doing something with a browser. The first time it was Firefox, then Seamonkey. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
El 17/03/13 17:03, James Knott escribió:
In the 4 hours that I have had 12.3 installed on this system, it has crashed twice, requiring a power down & up to recover. Both times I was doing something with a browser. The first time it was Firefox, then Seamonkey.
Hrmm.. OK., what does crash ? the X server ? kernel panic ? are you using the NVIDIA propietary driver ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 17/03/13 17:03, James Knott escribió:
In the 4 hours that I have had 12.3 installed on this system, it has crashed twice, requiring a power down & up to recover. Both times I was doing something with a browser. The first time it was Firefox, then Seamonkey.
Hrmm.. OK., what does crash ? the X server ? kernel panic ? are you using the NVIDIA propietary driver ?
The display goes all crazy, but what appears to be the boot up screen appears briefly. I'm running the Nouveau drivers. As I mentioned, the entire computer locks up, requiring a power off & on to recover. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
El 17/03/13 17:17, James Knott escribió:
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 17/03/13 17:03, James Knott escribió:
In the 4 hours that I have had 12.3 installed on this system, it has crashed twice, requiring a power down & up to recover. Both times I was doing something with a browser. The first time it was Firefox, then Seamonkey.
Hrmm.. OK., what does crash ? the X server ? kernel panic ? are you using the NVIDIA propietary driver ?
The display goes all crazy, but what appears to be the boot up screen appears briefly. I'm running the Nouveau drivers. As I mentioned, the entire computer locks up, requiring a power off & on to recover.
ok, let's see if it really freezes without hope.. open /etc/systemd/system.conf Uncomment the line RuntimeWatchdogSec= and make it RuntimeWatchdogSec=20s reboot the next time it happends, if stuff went really wrong, the machine will reboot itself after 20 seconds. Note that this will not work if your system does not a /dev/watchdog device. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
the next time it happends, if stuff went really wrong, the machine will reboot itself after 20 seconds.
Note that this will not work if your system does not a /dev/watchdog device.
It doesn't appear to. Is it possible to add it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
El 17/03/13 17:52, James Knott escribió:
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
the next time it happends, if stuff went really wrong, the machine will reboot itself after 20 seconds.
Note that this will not work if your system does not a /dev/watchdog device.
It doesn't appear to. Is it possible to add it?
hrmmm.. if it does not come with your machine.. you could try the "softdog" kernel module. echo "softdog" > /etc/modules-load.d/softdog.conf echo "options softdog soft_panic=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
It doesn't appear to. Is it possible to add it?
hrmmm.. if it does not come with your machine.. you could try the "softdog" kernel module.
echo "softdog" > /etc/modules-load.d/softdog.conf echo "options softdog soft_panic=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf
I've run those commands. We'll see what happens now. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 17/03/13 17:52, James Knott escribió:
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
the next time it happends, if stuff went really wrong, the machine will reboot itself after 20 seconds.
Note that this will not work if your system does not a /dev/watchdog device.
It doesn't appear to. Is it possible to add it?
hrmmm.. if it does not come with your machine.. you could try the "softdog" kernel module.
echo "softdog" > /etc/modules-load.d/softdog.conf echo "options softdog soft_panic=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf
What's happening is that it's only the desktop that's crashing & locking up. I cannot do anything with the keyboard or mouse, but I can use XDMCP to remotely access the desktop from another computer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
James Knott wrote:
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 17/03/13 17:52, James Knott escribió:
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
the next time it happends, if stuff went really wrong, the machine will reboot itself after 20 seconds.
Note that this will not work if your system does not a /dev/watchdog device.
It doesn't appear to. Is it possible to add it?
hrmmm.. if it does not come with your machine.. you could try the "softdog" kernel module.
echo "softdog" > /etc/modules-load.d/softdog.conf echo "options softdog soft_panic=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf
What's happening is that it's only the desktop that's crashing & locking up. I cannot do anything with the keyboard or mouse, but I can use XDMCP to remotely access the desktop from another computer.
Also, the problem may have something to do with Firefox or Seamonkey. Both were showing on the panel when the computer locked up, but when I connected to the computer with ssh and ran ps aux, neither was listed as running. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
What's happening is that it's only the desktop that's crashing & locking up. I cannot do anything with the keyboard or mouse, but I can use XDMCP to remotely access the desktop from another computer.
Also, the problem may have something to do with Firefox or Seamonkey. Both were showing on the panel when the computer locked up, but when I connected to the computer with ssh and ran ps aux, neither was listed as running.
I was just taking a closer look at the video drivers. Both "xf86-video-nv - NVIDIA video driver for the Xorg X server" and "xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau - Accelerated Open Source driver for nVidia cards" are shown as installed. I've also got " libdrm_nouveau1-32bit - Userspace interface for Kernel DRM services for NVIDIA chips" and "libdrm_nouveau2-32bit - Userspace interface for Kernel DRM services for NVIDIA chips", with the nouveau1 version number listed in red. It looks like I've got to many packages installed here. p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2013-03-17 21:45 (GMT-0400) James Knott composed:
I was just taking a closer look at the video drivers. Both "xf86-video-nv - NVIDIA video driver for the Xorg X server" and "xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau - Accelerated Open Source driver for nVidia cards" are shown as installed. I've also got " libdrm_nouveau1-32bit - Userspace interface for Kernel DRM services for NVIDIA chips" and "libdrm_nouveau2-32bit - Userspace interface for Kernel DRM services for NVIDIA chips", with the nouveau1 version number listed in red. It looks like I've got to many packages installed here.
IIRC, the nv driver is intended for the oldest NVidia chips supported by a chip specific FOSS driver. Last I checked, it was incompatible with KMS, but it's been a while. The nouveau driver is intended for more recent NVidia chips and is only for use with KMS, but by specifying nomodeset or blacklisting nouveau I think the nv driver will load for newer chips. IOW, having both nv and nouveau drivers installed is normal. Xorg.0.log tells which is being used. About the DRM packages, I know nutting. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
James Knott wrote:
What's happening is that it's only the desktop that's crashing & locking up. I cannot do anything with the keyboard or mouse, but I can use XDMCP to remotely access the desktop from another computer.
Also, the problem may have something to do with Firefox or Seamonkey. Both were showing on the panel when the computer locked up, but when I connected to the computer with ssh and ran ps aux, neither was listed as running.
I was just taking a closer look at the video drivers. Both "xf86-video-nv - NVIDIA video driver for the Xorg X server" and "xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau - Accelerated Open Source driver for nVidia cards" are shown as installed. I've also got " libdrm_nouveau1-32bit - Userspace interface for Kernel DRM services for NVIDIA chips" and "libdrm_nouveau2-32bit - Userspace interface for Kernel DRM services for NVIDIA chips", with the nouveau1 version number listed in red. It looks like I've got to many packages installed here.
I deleted the Nouveau driver and also libdrm_nouveau1-32bit last night and my desktop hasn't crashed since (about 24 hours). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
I'll say this about 12.3 - it's FAST! Running in just 1G on the 800MHz "piece of shit" (as Cristian so aptly describes it) its actually usable! More usable than 12.2 and lot more usable and responsive than XP on the same hardware. At least with xfce4. I'm even tempted to try E17 :-) If only YAST wouldn't keep crashing in GUI mode ... Maybe it Xorg ... or the drivers ... -- Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot". (The Colour of Magic) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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