On Wednesday 27 April 2005 3:09 pm, Gordon Keehn wrote:

I recently installed SuSE Pro 9.2 as a second OS, dual booting with Windows XP, on an IBM ThinkCentre A50. Since then, I've experienced several hangs either while or just after leaving YaST (under KDE). My session stops responding to all keyboard and mouse input, although the mouse cursor moves freely. I can log in via ssh from a neighbor box, but response is deadly slow. Likewise, I can switch consoles but it takes several minutes for the text console to appear and up to 5 minutes for a login to complete. I've tried entering "shutdown -r now" from a text console and in the aforementioned ssh session, but while the initial notification message appears, the system does not shut down (waiting up to 15 minutes). Each time this has happened I've ended up hitting the switch. I'm about to bag SuSE as a bad bet and put the space to other good use, unless I can find a way to fix this.

What you are describing appears to be some KDE component going into a tight loop. I suggest that you set up a monitor. You can simply run top on a virtual terminal that you set up before you go into YaST. Once you lock up, switch to that VT like you do above. Top should be showing the process that is taking up all the cycles. Note that I find SuSE 9.2 very stable. The only problems I have had was to get my Treo650 synced up (add a couple of lines to udev), and corrupting the system by doing an update with insufficient disk space. The first was essentially an RTFM, and the second was the case of a software engineer trying to act as a system admin :-). -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9