Ken Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 06:17, Rikard Johnels wrote:
Hi all!
Tried a fresh install of 9.1 today (for the third time) No frills, just a clean from scratch install of the standard system. And i've gotten the same problem EVERYTIME!
KDE locks up randomly after a few minutes.
No keyboard, no network no nothing but the button-on-the-front can unluck it. I cant seem to find the answer to why or what causes the lockup. Thought it to be YAS, but even if i dont run it it locks. Thought it was a number of other things, none applied. It just wont run. It looses keyboard, CAPS and NUM toggles, but you cant shift to another terminal to kill X, and you cant even bail out with ctrl-alt-backspace. YOu cant access the box via keyboard at all. It also kills network connections, i cant ping let alone ssh to the box as it hangs.
What am i to do???
-- /Rikard
This is most likely a hardware problem. Try reseating all of the boards in the box and see if that clears up the problem. Also boot to the bios setup and let it sit there to see if it hangs there as well, this will mean a hardware problem for sure.
It's not always a hardware problem, as in defective hardware or a bad connection, or a thermal issue. Sometimes the cause is that Linux crashes, due to some device driver incompatibility with perfectly good hardware. I have had this, for example with a Matrox video card that locked the system after it was running for a while, until I found some obscure option to put in the X config file to luckily be able to fix it. The OP should boot Suse using the Failsafe option to see if the problem goes away. Additionally, they should install and use the memtest86.bin boot image to scan the RAM. A RAM problem might not show up until some application has caused access to that part of RAM, so just running the BIOS screen might not expose this problem. It could be an APM thing, or IDE DMA (I have a machine that locks when that is turned on), or any number of other subtle hardware driver incompatibilities or bugs that don't show up in the immediate bootup sequence. Good luck solving your problem. Good day! -- _____________________ Christopher R. Carlen crobc@earthlink.net SuSE 9.1 Linux 2.6.5