Only hang problem i have in 8.2 is (and this started yesterday so i haven't
checked it yet) durring boot, it successfully checks (kernel configuration?
i dont' remember now.. been awake too long) and just before init enters
runlevel3 it'll hang. It'll hang GOOD there too 2 hours yesterday while i
went and got something to eat & went to the store.. i can Ctrl-C but the
rest of the boot fails that way. I started just pushing buttons once and
when i hit the print screen/SysRq button BOING!!!! it went cruising along
(still had a failure but it went by too fast). then at shutdown (well..
sometime durring boot too) when it syncs with the hardware clock, it's
totally 100% dead frozen.
Any ideas on this? like i said i haven't checked the logs yet... i'll do
that... (oh.. but wait.. i dont' have syslog because that was hanging too...
eeek.) maybe partition type? does it need to be a primary partition?(i
thought for sure it was...) Other than that oddity, though, 8.2's rockin'
right along. ('cept Wine :-( i've lost my fileserving on mIRC)
Jerry.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark D'voo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] lots of freezes in LM 8.1
8.1 was terrible for me and would hang all the time, i think my longest
uptime
was a little under a day !! 8.2 rocks though, much much more stable, at
least
for me, much much quicker too!!
mark
On Saturday 25 May 2002 04:56 pm, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm sadly experiencing a lot of freezes in my LM 8.1 box. I just hope I
> won't have to give up saying that "Linux does not hang" to my buddies,
> but right now it's kind of difficult. I'm having daily hang-ups.
>
> Here goes a quick summary of my system :
> Linux Mandrake 8.1, using ext3, on a (somewhat problematic I know)
> A7V133 with a Duron 800 (not overclocked).
> 2 sticks of Micron PC133 (256+128)
> TNT2M64 AGP :^(, XFree 4.0.3, latest Nvidia binary drivers
> kernels 2.4.8-26mdk, 2.4.8 (recompiled), 2.4.18 (stock Linus kernel)
>
> Well , what happens is that I've been experiencing these freezes for
> about two weeks now. I haven't made any major modification to the system
> prior to the hang-ups. The system seems to freeze completely; at first I
> thought it was just X locking (not commom, but not quite unexpected) but
> I realized there was something more deeply wrong when I couldn't telnet
> into my machine. Telnet wouldn't reply; it would just stay at the prompt
> without giving an access denied, couldn't connect or any other error.
> Ping , strangely, worked fine. Prior to that, my system had been
> rock-stable for months.
>
> I started trying to figure out what was wrong; there was nothing in the
> logs. The system would just die. I thought it could be a (strange) IRQ
> conflict problem ( since as I said my system had been running well for
> months) and moved my ethernet board to another PCI slot. The hangs were
> still there. Can someone tell me if an IRQ conflict can do that sort of
> thing? The hang-ups always seem to happen when I am either using my
> (soft)modem or xmms (problem is that I'm almost always doing these, so
> it 's not much of a information).
>
>
> Only once I got an error in the log; it said the kernel couldn't handle
> a paging request, so I began to suspect it was a memory problem. I went
> to BIOS and lowered the settings of the memory; then I remembered
> reading somewhere that having the kernel optmized for Athlon/Durons
> sometimes led people to hangs, so I downloaded the latest (2.4.18)
> kernel, an compiled it without going for Athlon arch. Which actually got
> me somewhere, everything hanged but the mouse; this time I managed to
> telnet into my machine and seemed that X was consuming 101% CPU (well,
> something like 99,5% actually). But the day after I got another complete
> freeze.
>
>
> I have some people saying that I should do a BIOS update, install LM8.2,
> but I don't think any of these may help since the system was performing
> normally just a while ago. I am limited right now to boot into window$
> (blergh!) and see if the if it also freezes (not much of a deal,
> considering it is window$, but even my window$ didn't have daily
> freezes). If it does, then it is most probably a hardware problem. What
> bothers me is that it never freezes when I'm running CPU/memory
> intensive programs, like Quake3 or watching DivX/DVDs. I also tested the
> memory (and other subsystems) in window$ using Sandra2001 and it
> reported no problems. If it were a hardware problem then it was bound to
> happen during a stress situation...
>
>
>
>
> I am very willing to listen to ANY suggestion anyone might have, since I
> am becoming quite a bit desperate about it. Also if anyone has had any
> similar problem , I'd be more than happy to listen, perhaps I can find a
> solution to my problems.
>
> TIA,
>
> Jeferson L. Zacco
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (if possible include a CC to my e-mail above)
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