Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-28 Thread John Hasler
George writes: > I installed the "New Tab Suspender v2" Add-on but how do you 1) configure > the timer and the Tab count, 2) know if it is actually working or not? It doesn't seem to be configureable. You can tell it's working when long-unused tabs reload when you click them. There are several o

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-28 Thread George at Clug
On Saturday, 28-12-2024 at 12:34 John Hasler wrote: > As an interim solution consider installing the "New Tab Suspender v2" > extension: John, I installed the "New Tab Suspender v2" Add-on but how do you 1) configure the timer and the Tab count, 2) know if it is actually working or not? Geor

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/27/24 11:10 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 6:42 PM Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Trixie full updated. I have been having lockups quite often running Firefox under the latest kernel. The lockups are complete, even REISUB doesn't work - the comput

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 6:42 PM Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I am running Trixie full updated. > I have been having lockups quite often running Firefox under the latest > kernel. > The lockups are complete, even REISUB doesn't work - the computer is > completely unresp

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread Frank McCormick
27;t think that will help in my situation. The lockups happen soon after boot and now I know it's not only Firefox, but Thunderbird and tonight it happened in a text editor as I was writing up a bug report -- Frank McCormick

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/27/24 7:41 PM, George at Clug wrote: On Saturday, 28-12-2024 at 08:08 Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Trixie full updated. I have been having lockups quite often running Firefox under the latest kernel. My wife has been experiencing Firefox lockups on Debian Bookworm (KDE

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread George at Clug
On Saturday, 28-12-2024 at 12:34 John Hasler wrote: > As an interim solution consider installing the "New Tab Suspender v2" > extension: Thanks John, I will give that a try. Sounds worthwhile even if the lockups were not happening. George. > > A very lightweight ta

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread John Hasler
As an interim solution consider installing the "New Tab Suspender v2" extension: A very lightweight tab suspender to suspend inactive tabs that reduces an overall memory usage of firefox, uses a firefox native discard api -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread George at Clug
On Saturday, 28-12-2024 at 08:08 Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am running Trixie full updated. > I have been having lockups quite often running Firefox under the latest > kernel. My wife has been experiencing Firefox lockups on Debian Bookworm (KDE Plasma when using either Waylan

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 27 Dec 2024 16:08 -0500, from debianl...@videotron.ca (Frank McCormick): > I am running Trixie full updated. > I have been having lockups quite often running Firefox under the latest > kernel. > The lockups are complete, even REISUB doesn't work - the computer is > complete

Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Trixie full updated. I have been having lockups quite often running Firefox under the latest kernel. The lockups are complete, even REISUB doesn't work - the computer is completely unresponsive. I have gone back to the previous kernel and things run smoothly. This is in

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-03 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 02:08:27 +0200 zithro wrote: > On 03 Aug 2023 01:25, Celejar wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand your point: if we assume that the fact that > > my adapter burned indicates that my particular adapter must have been of > > very poor quality, than this implies that such adapters

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-02 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
debian-user@lists.debian.org On 8/2/23, piorunz wrote: > On 02/08/2023 22:29, Celejar wrote: >> The Z440 officially supports up to an NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12GB, which >> draws 234 watts, so it ought to be able to handle my Red Devil RX-570. >> The Red Devil specifies a minimum system power of 450 w

Re: Follow the specs :) (was Re: AMD GPU hard lockups)

2023-08-02 Thread gene heskett
On 8/2/23 19:30, zithro wrote: On 02 Aug 2023 23:29, Celejar wrote: > But reputable companies do produce 6-8 pin adapters, e.g.: [...] > (I just ordered the Cable Matters one.) Out of curiosity, I checked the links. Funny that "reputable companies" (I'm not attacking you, but them) don't even

Re: Follow the specs :) (was Re: AMD GPU hard lockups)

2023-08-02 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 01:29:42 +0200 zithro wrote: > On 02 Aug 2023 23:29, Celejar wrote: > > But reputable companies do produce 6-8 pin adapters, e.g.: > [...] > > (I just ordered the Cable Matters one.) > > Out of curiosity, I checked the links. > Funny that "reputable companies" (I'm not attac

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-02 Thread zithro
On 03 Aug 2023 01:25, Celejar wrote: I'm not sure I understand your point: if we assume that the fact that my adapter burned indicates that my particular adapter must have been of very poor quality, than this implies that such adapters in general are not dangerous (which, as I've noted, is suppor

Follow the specs :) (was Re: AMD GPU hard lockups)

2023-08-02 Thread zithro
On 02 Aug 2023 23:29, Celejar wrote: > But reputable companies do produce 6-8 pin adapters, e.g.: [...] > (I just ordered the Cable Matters one.) Out of curiosity, I checked the links. Funny that "reputable companies" (I'm not attacking you, but them) don't even specify the max power rating as p

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-02 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 22:37:50 +0100 piorunz wrote: > On 02/08/2023 22:29, Celejar wrote: > > The Z440 officially supports up to an NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12GB, which > > draws 234 watts, so it ought to be able to handle my Red Devil RX-570. > > The Red Devil specifies a minimum system power of 450 wat

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-02 Thread piorunz
On 02/08/2023 22:29, Celejar wrote: The Z440 officially supports up to an NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12GB, which draws 234 watts, so it ought to be able to handle my Red Devil RX-570. The Red Devil specifies a minimum system power of 450 watts, and my Z440's PSU is 700 watts: More detailed info: https

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-02 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 23:12:02 +0200 zithro wrote: > On 02 Aug 2023 03:21, Celejar wrote: > > when I opened the case, sure enough, the > > cable feeding the GPU had burned and broken. > > > > Fortunately, I don't see damage to the system's power cable or to the > > GPU itself, just to the 6 pin to

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-02 Thread zithro
On 02 Aug 2023 03:21, Celejar wrote: when I opened the case, sure enough, the cable feeding the GPU had burned and broken. Fortunately, I don't see damage to the system's power cable or to the GPU itself, just to the 6 pin to 8 pin PCIE adapter cable (the HP PSU has only 6 pin cables, and the GP

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 19:13:42 +0100 piorunz wrote: > On 01/08/2023 19:09, Celejar wrote: > > Okay, thanks for the clarification. It seems, however, that I'm dealing > > with a hardware issue (as Dan Ritter suggested): I did some more > > testing, and after the latest crash, the system won't boot at

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread piorunz
On 01/08/2023 19:09, Celejar wrote: Okay, thanks for the clarification. It seems, however, that I'm dealing with a hardware issue (as Dan Ritter suggested): I did some more testing, and after the latest crash, the system won't boot at all, and the power LED blinks red six times, which according t

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 18:25:39 +0100 piorunz wrote: > On 01/08/2023 18:16, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:56:37 +0100 > > piorunz wrote: > > > >> On 01/08/2023 16:44, Celejar wrote: > >> > >>> Any ideas? > >>> > >> Revert to Debian Stable and check there. I have AMD Radeon card and it's >

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread piorunz
On 01/08/2023 18:16, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:56:37 +0100 piorunz wrote: On 01/08/2023 16:44, Celejar wrote: Any ideas? Revert to Debian Stable and check there. I have AMD Radeon card and it's 100% stable on Stable, and it had issues last year back when bookworm was in Testing.

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 12:12:01 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > piorunz wrote: > > On 01/08/2023 16:44, Celejar wrote: > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > Revert to Debian Stable and check there. I have AMD Radeon card and it's > > 100% stable on Stable, and it had issues last year back when bookworm was in

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:56:37 +0100 piorunz wrote: > On 01/08/2023 16:44, Celejar wrote: > > > Any ideas? > > > Revert to Debian Stable and check there. I have AMD Radeon card and it's > 100% stable on Stable, and it had issues last year back when bookworm > was in Testing. I'm confused - curr

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread Dan Ritter
piorunz wrote: > On 01/08/2023 16:44, Celejar wrote: > > > Any ideas? > > > Revert to Debian Stable and check there. I have AMD Radeon card and it's > 100% stable on Stable, and it had issues last year back when bookworm was in > Testing. If that doesn't work, try a new power supply. Video card

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread piorunz
On 01/08/2023 16:44, Celejar wrote: Any ideas? Revert to Debian Stable and check there. I have AMD Radeon card and it's 100% stable on Stable, and it had issues last year back when bookworm was in Testing. -- With kindest regards, Piotr. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating sys

AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread Celejar
Hello, I have a system running Debian unstable with an AMD RX-570. It has been working fine for a while, but recently, anything that uses the more advanced features of the GPU causes the system to hard lockup: black screen, no response to keyboard, no network connectivity. I'm not sure exactly wh

KDE failed to start and CPU lockups when openvswitch enabled

2020-01-31 Thread John Mok
Hi all, I use Buster + Xen on Lenovo ThinkPad P52 (Intel 8750H). When enabled openvswitch, the following problems found :- 1) KDE failed to start 2) frequent CPU lockups 3) USB storage failed to mount (and lockup) I hope someone could point me how to resolve those problems. Thanks a lot

Re: Diagnosing lockups

2019-09-27 Thread Felix Miata
Charlie Gibbs composed on 2019-09-26 21:16 (UTC-0700): > I've set up a new machine with Buster (my first foray, my other > machines are still running Stretch). It frequently locks up so > hard that I have to hit the reset button. It seems to happen when > scrolling a Notepad window in Windows XP

Diagnosing lockups

2019-09-26 Thread Charlie Gibbs
I've set up a new machine with Buster (my first foray, my other machines are still running Stretch). It frequently locks up so hard that I have to hit the reset button. It seems to happen when scrolling a Notepad window in Windows XP, which is running under VirtualBox 6.0.10 r132072. The mach

[Fwd: Affected by gnome-shell lockups on wheezy?]

2013-07-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
This might be of interest for some GNOME users on this mailing list. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- --- Begin Message --- Hi all, despite some workarounds added to the gnome-shell package, some users have still complained of more or less frequent deadlocks of the shell

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-06 Thread francis picabia
problem is usually identifiable with some errors as clues, not lockups. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+AKB6HBwVMSSW1x04zpA=4rwv8=yoHRfJx

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/07/12 04:11 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:46:56 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. Can you still

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:46:56 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> >>> My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time >>> recently. >>> >>> There is nothing is the syslog...n

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system just locks changing what's on the screen to

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time > recently. > > There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system > just locks changing what's on the screen to yellow tinged text. It locks > s

Re: re Random lockups

2012-07-03 Thread Frank McCormick
sibly something to check. They are not just browser lockups...they occur at other times as well. Lots of room in /var. I suspect buggy video drivers but don't have any hard evidence to file a bug report Does anybody have suggestions for a video card which does not require all s

re Random lockups

2012-07-03 Thread Frank McCormick
voltages from what I remember were normal. I am stumped. Suggestions ?? -- Cheers Frank I had been experiencing random browser lock ups (Squeeze), & it turned out to be my /var was filling up. Possibly something to check. They are not just browser lockups...they occur at ot

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-03 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 3 July 2012 18:10, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time > recently. > >There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system > just locks changing what's on the screen to yellow tinged text. > It locks so tight t

Random lockups

2012-07-03 Thread Frank McCormick
My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system just locks changing what's on the screen to yellow tinged text. It locks so tight that only a hard reset gets it back. Alt-SysReq does not

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-08-25 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:06:09PM +, s. keeling wrote: > Nick Lidakis : > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:13:08AM +0200, Thomas Amm wrote: > > > Am 24.06.2010 20:06, schrieb Nick Lidakis: > > > > > > > > I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old > > > > video card would n

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-08-25 Thread s. keeling
Nick Lidakis : > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:13:08AM +0200, Thomas Amm wrote: > > Am 24.06.2010 20:06, schrieb Nick Lidakis: > > > > > > I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old > > > video card would not cause a machine to lock hard. Although,I am > > > on unstable. You pa

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-08-25 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:13:08AM +0200, Thomas Amm wrote: > Am 24.06.2010 20:06, schrieb Nick Lidakis: > > > > I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old video card > > would not cause a machine to lock hard. Although,I am on unstable. You pays > > your money > > and you t

Re: Iceape Lockups

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Amm
Am 23.07.2010 15:59, schrieb Thomas H. George: > Four or five days ago Iceape began locking up when loading certain > files. For example, when loading the weather report the forecast would (...) > I filed a bug report two days ago but have had no response. Have others > encountered this problem

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Amm
Am 24.06.2010 20:06, schrieb Nick Lidakis: > > I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old video card > would not cause a machine to lock hard. Although,I am on unstable. You pays > your money > and you takes your chances... > > Thanks for the suggestions. Are, by any chanc

Iceape Lockups

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas H. George
Four or five days ago Iceape began locking up when loading certain files. For example, when loading the weather report the forecast would appear and then the display would lock up before completing the loading of the doppler radar map. The same thing happens when loading pages from other web site

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-06-24 Thread Camaleón
hat I had in a junk > box. All is well: 2d, 3d, s2ram. No lockups using 3d xscreensaver, like > I had with the Dell X1300. Ubuntu live works great. So, maybe the Dell > cards really do funny things. I don't think (well, I "hope" not) Dell's cards are tweaked in an insane

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-06-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
ug out an old Saphire 256MB X1300 card that I had in a junk box. All is well: 2d, 3d, s2ram. No lockups using 3d xscreensaver, like I had with the Dell X1300. Ubuntu live works great. So, maybe the Dell cards really do funny things. > With open drivers and KMS, Xorg should work "out-of

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-06-23 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:06:23 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 01:36:10PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> Have you tried with the proprietary driver? Just for testing purposes. > > No. I really don't want to use a closed driver. I purchased this card > because I read (Xorg wiki) that

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-06-23 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 01:36:10PM +, Camaleón wrote: > Have you tried with the proprietary driver? Just for testing purposes. No. I really don't want to use a closed driver. I purchased this card because I read (Xorg wiki) that this slightly older tech was well supported for a 2D desktop und

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-06-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:52:21 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I seem to be having severe issues in getting a Radeon HD 3450 working > with Xorg and Debian. (...) Have you tried with the proprietary driver? Just for testing purposes. Another thing to try could be using KMS and no "xorg.conf" configu

Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-06-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
bled I did try an older kernel (2.6.30) and can get Xorg up, but there is no Xv and 2D acceleration is disabled. Lockups happen when no xorg.conf is specified, as well. Maybe I should also note that I have had issues with the card I was replacing. Also a OEM Dell Radeon x1300 PCI-e. Using th

Re: X lockups yet again

2009-10-24 Thread Wayne
Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I knew it was too good to last - after my trouble of lockups with X a few weeks ago. It has started again. X was upgraded in Squeeze this morning and not an hour later my machine was frozen tighter than a well...it was

X lockups yet again

2009-10-24 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I knew it was too good to last - after my trouble of lockups with X a few weeks ago. It has started again. X was upgraded in Squeeze this morning and not an hour later my machine was frozen tighter than a well...it was frozen. I am beginning

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-16 Thread Charles
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:00:24 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub > > Interface (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation > > 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) > > Intel 865 is broken with all c

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-16 15:35 +0200, Charles wrote: > char...@squeeze:~$ lspci > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub > Interface (rev 02) > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated > Graphics Controller (rev 02) Intel 865 is broken w

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Charles schreef: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:10:13 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-09-16 05:24 +0200, Charles wrote: Several times lately I have come back to my computer to find it locked up so tight I have has to do the alt-sysreq thing. Kernel version and your video adapter are more useful

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-16 Thread Charles
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:10:13 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-16 05:24 +0200, Charles wrote: > > > Several times lately I have come back to my computer to find it locked up so > > tight I have has to do the alt-sysreq thing. > Kernel version and your video adapter are more useful informat

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-15 Thread Sven Joachim
x2d > Sep 15 20:45:12 squeeze kernel: [ 9960.640145] [] ? > worker_thread+0x0/0x1bd > Sep 15 20:45:12 squeeze kernel: [ 9960.640150] [] ? > kthread+0x42/0x67 > Sep 15 20:45:12 squeeze kernel: [ 9960.640154] [] ? > kthread+0x0/0x67 > Sep 15 20:45:12 squeeze kernel: [ 9960.640161] [] ?

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-15 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
60.640150] [] ? > kthread+0x42/0x67 > Sep 15 20:45:12 squeeze kernel: [ 9960.640154] [] ? > kthread+0x0/0x67 > Sep 15 20:45:12 squeeze kernel: [ 9960.640161] [] ? > kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > > This whole sequence is repeated 8 or 10 times in the log. > > The lockups

Squeeze lockups

2009-09-15 Thread Charles
the log. The lockups only started a few days ago so it may have something to do with an upgrade. None of the log makes any sense to me :) Does it make any sense to anybody ? Any ideas what's causing the lockups? -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: troubleshoot lockups

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:02:24PM -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > On Nov 28, 1:20 pm, Andrew Sackville-West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > These key combos I never even heard of. Ditto. I'll try them if it > happens again. google on "magic sysrq" for more info. A signature.asc Description

Re: troubleshoot lockups

2007-11-28 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Nov 28, 2:40 pm, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also try sysRq options to save what you can. See: Magic SysRq Key > > http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%20Tricks/sysrq.htm > Thanks for the link. I didn't know it had to be pre-enabled. Now, I'm ready. rd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: troubleshoot lockups

2007-11-28 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Nov 28, 1:20 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > further to that, can you ssh into the box? Just because it doesn't > respond to the keyboard doesn't mean it inaccessible. I never thought of this. I'll try it if it happens again. > And, use alt-sysrq-s to sync your disks be

Re: troubleshoot lockups

2007-11-28 Thread Ralph Katz
few others. > > I don't mean to suggest that this is causing my recent problem. It's > just the only thing I can think of. In the last week I have had two > complete lockups, which force me to power off. > > What log file do I look at on my system to get a clue for th

Re: troubleshoot lockups

2007-11-28 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Nov 28, 11:20 am, "Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Log files are in /var/log. You might want to look into syslog and > kern.log attach it to your post if you need further help. Thank you. I'll keep an eye on these if it happens again. I don't see anything significant in e

Re: troubleshoot lockups

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:35:21AM -0500, Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé wrote: > > What log file do I look at on my system to get a clue for the source > > of the problem? > > Log files are in /var/log. You might want to look into syslog and > kern.log attach it to your post if you need further help. >

Re: troubleshoot lockups

2007-11-28 Thread Kent West
is is causing my recent problem. It's just the only thing I can think of. In the last week I have had two complete lockups, which force me to power off. I doubt you'll find much in the log files, but take a look in /var/logs. You can "tail -50 syslog", etc for whatever logs

Re: troubleshoot lockups

2007-11-28 Thread Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé
> What log file do I look at on my system to get a clue for the source > of the problem? Log files are in /var/log. You might want to look into syslog and kern.log attach it to your post if you need further help. When your system is locked, try ctrl+alt+backspace (it force restart X) or ctrl+alt+

Re: troubleshoot lockups

2007-11-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
a few others. I have the debian-multimedia.org repository, but what is the unofficial one? > > I don't mean to suggest that this is causing my recent problem. It's > just the only thing I can think of. In the last week I have had two > complete lockups, which force me to

troubleshoot lockups

2007-11-28 Thread BartlebyScrivener
oblem. It's just the only thing I can think of. In the last week I have had two complete lockups, which force me to power off. What log file do I look at on my system to get a clue for the source of the problem? I ran Aptitude and discovered one conflict between Cupsys and lpr. I applied the r

How to debug network lockups and test /etc/network/interfaces config?

2007-10-23 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Short Summary: I have an Etch install that does not behave like all my other etch installs" it locks up when I restart the networking, even if I haven't changed the configuration. I can't find anything strange in /etc/network/interfaces, and nothing helpful in the logs. I'd also like to know wha

usbhid and wireless keyboard and mouse - avoiding lockups

2006-12-09 Thread Chris
I'm using the following fancy wireless USB keyboard and mouse. The thing is giving me alot of trouble though. Often the mouse and/or keyboard lock up. Sometimes on boot the mouse only moves up and down not across. I can sometimes get things back with: rmmod usbhid modprobe usbhid /etc/init.

Re: evolution lockups

2006-04-08 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
Try G_SLICE=always-malloc evolution & to start evolution without crashing to fix locks (it began after installing pango 0.12) you can recompile gtkhtml3.8 from etch against new pango-dev or install gtkhtml3.8 from unstable (this helped me :) В Сбт, 08/04/2006 в 10:11 -0500, LostSon пишет: > Hell

evolution lockups

2006-04-08 Thread LostSon
Hello I have recently moved to debian and am greatly pleased. I am using Debian etch and am having problems with evolution. It locks up all the time. I have seen some other mail on the list that inquires about this but couldnt seem to find any rock solid answers. Is there a way to fix this

Re: Re: OpenGL causes hard system lockups

2005-12-23 Thread Paulette & Gord Maclennan
Damon:   Were you able to correct your screensaver lock up problem?  I am experiencing the same problem with an ASUS K8V-MX mobo with integrated video.   Can you suggest anything that might help with the lockup problem?   Paul

Re: how to determine source of lockups?

2005-06-14 Thread Cam
Hi, On 6/14/05, Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a lark: which kernel version are you running? I'm running > Ubuntu on one of my machines, and one of the earlier kernel > versions interacted badly with GNOME. inotify turned out to > be the problem, and adding 'noinotify' to the ker

Re: how to determine source of lockups?

2005-06-14 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:29:12PM -0600, Cam wrote: > mouse or do anything w/ ctrl+alt+backspace, sysrq, etc. the only > thing i can possibly think of being an issue is maybe my nvidia > drivers (i did recompile the module for my new kernel). any tips for > maybe narrowing this down better? I'd

how to determine source of lockups?

2005-06-14 Thread Cam
Hi, I've been experiencing some bad lockups lately... it seems like certain applications are more prone to cause them (lotus notes under wine, for example). Anyway, i re-compiled my kernel (i just wanted a thinner kernel), but now everytime i start firefox, my box freezes up. There's

Keyboard, X, lockups, and other hardware oddities . . .

2004-11-13 Thread Justin Rosander
AT keyboard not present' quite often this happens. 3)Icepack-linux and Debian sarge-when switching to a console from X, the monitor goes black and I get an OSD message that says 'out of range'. 4)Fedora Core 2-Lots of X lockups 5)Debian-sarge-Frequent X lockups complete with looping aud

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 23:33, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Just to show its not networking problems, I have resorted to copying the > > files via scp - even encrypted I am getting about 0.5Mb/sec > > That's horrible! Is this a 10Mb ne

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-15 Thread Alan Chandler
Tim Kelley writes: On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:00:18AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Both you guys have missed my main message - the speed I was talking about was using SCP - so perhaps its also processors trying to do encrypt the message. No, that is neglegible, unless this is a 386 or something

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-15 Thread Tim Kelley
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:00:18AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > Both you guys have missed my main message - the speed I was talking about > was using SCP - so perhaps its also processors trying to do encrypt the > message. No, that is neglegible, unless this is a 386 or something. > The thro

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-15 Thread Alan Chandler
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Just to show its not networking problems, I have resorted to copying the files via scp - even encrypted I am getting about 0.5Mb/se

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: >> Just to show its not networking problems, I have resorted to copying >the files >> via scp - even encrypted I am getting about 0.5Mb/sec > >That's horrible! Is

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-13 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am trying copy about 350Mb of files - each one about 2.8MB each - over an > nfs link. Although I primarily trying this via drag and drop inside kde, > command line copying is also not working > > With the sync option it is very

NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-13 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying copy about 350Mb of files - each one about 2.8MB each - over an nfs link. Although I primarily trying this via drag and drop inside kde, command line copying is also not working With the sync option it is very slow - the dialog box can't report the copy rate and marks it as stalled

Re: mysterious X lockups on Sarge

2004-08-31 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:52:37PM -0300, ScruLoose wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:18:45AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:26:12PM -0300, ScruLoose wrote: > > > > For several weeks now, I've been having X lock up on me occasionally, > > > and I'm a bit stumped as t

Re: mysterious X lockups on Sarge

2004-08-31 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:18:45AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:26:12PM -0300, ScruLoose wrote: > > For several weeks now, I've been having X lock up on me occasionally, > > and I'm a bit stumped as to where to start debugging it... > > > > I'm running Sarge on a P4 3

Re: mysterious X lockups on Sarge

2004-08-31 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 06:39:56PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > snippage > > > > > Every couple of days or so X seems to die an abrupt death. The display > > will freeze completely, keyboard input has no effect (including > > CTRL-ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE). The system is still running,

Re: mysterious X lockups on Sarge

2004-08-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:26:12PM -0300, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi all, > > For several weeks now, I've been having X lock up on me occasionally, > and I'm a bit stumped as to where to start debugging it... Me, too. > > I'm running Sarge on a P4 3.2 HT, and my video card is a GeForce FX > 5200 u

Re: mysterious X lockups on Sarge

2004-08-31 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:26:12PM -0300, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi all, > > For several weeks now, I've been having X lock up on me occasionally, > and I'm a bit stumped as to where to start debugging it... > > I'm running Sarge on a P4 3.2 HT, and my video card is a GeForce FX > 5200 using the nv

mysterious X lockups on Sarge

2004-08-31 Thread ScruLoose
Hi all, For several weeks now, I've been having X lock up on me occasionally, and I'm a bit stumped as to where to start debugging it... I'm running Sarge on a P4 3.2 HT, and my video card is a GeForce FX 5200 using the nvidia binary driver. I've had this problem on both a home-rolled 2.4.22

Re: USB module causing lockups? (Was: Strange lockups in X)

2004-06-08 Thread diego
El lun, 07-06-2004 a las 16:30, J. Preiss escribió: > Just got a lockup: put usb drive in, everything was dead. If someone is > interested in logs or something like that... my /var/log is yours... > > (I was reading four scsi drives with audio cds at that time, transforming them > to ogg... so m

Re: USB module causing lockups? (Was: Strange lockups in X)

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
Just got a lockup: put usb drive in, everything was dead. If someone is interested in logs or something like that... my /var/log is yours... (I was reading four scsi drives with audio cds at that time, transforming them to ogg... so my two processors were a little bit under pressure). -- To U

Re: USB module causing lockups? (Was: Strange lockups in X)

2004-06-03 Thread J. Preiss
. Looking back I had lockups with XFree, too. I dont remember the underlaying system, but the system was frozen. When I waited for the crash with top, X was in the first line. This had nothing to do with any usb modules, because I did not connect something. I simply waited. Sorry that I dont

Re: USB module causing lockups? (Was: Strange lockups in X)

2004-06-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
s which had worked flawlessly and the lockups continued (with the USB modules loaded). So I assumed the Debian kernels were not directly to blame. Yesterday I hit upon the USB driver angle as I was back-tracking what had changed prior to the lockup problems. Since rolling back the XFree packages

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