On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:21:52PM +0100, Jan Schumacher wrote: > Hi all, > > on the Pentium version of an Asus 2400 I experience KDE crashes after an > unpredictable period of time. Without any apparent cause, the computer > freezes completely, not even answering to pings over LAN. The system fan > speeds up to maximum, higher than it does when compiling the kernel several > times. This usually happens no earlier then after about half an hour, > sometimes after one or two hours, with or without user activity. Screensavers > are disabled. did you try to telnet on your system. It seems an X crash, so kernel and other applications would be perfectly "alive" > > I am using Ralph Nolden's Woody backport of KDE3.1 and XFree4.2 from Sid, as > 4.1 doesn't have a suitable display driver. The same thing happened with a > XFree4.3 backport and different minor versions of the KDE3 packages. It has > not happened while kdm was displaying a login, or with twm at all. if your system has a SiS630/SiS730 chipset (as I think) look at http://www.winischhofer.net (but perhaps you always know it) > > In the logs under /var/log I didn't find anything unusual after such a crash. > Main memory seems to be working well enough that memtester86 doesn't find any > fault with it after a night. The kernel compiles fine several times in a row, > so nothing blatant seems to be wrong with the hardware. perhaps some kde daemon go in loop after a period. I experienced some problems with arts (on a sis730 chipset): try to disable it. > > I am a bit lost as to what I can try next. Any help would be appreciated. I hope it helps
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