Slackware 13.1 Freezes
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From: Larry on 2 Jul 2010 10:21 I have Slackware 13.1 dual-booting with Slackware 12.2 on a AMD Sempron desktop. 12.2 is stable as a rock and has been since installed. 13.1 tends to randomly freeze up locking the cursor and keyboard. It seems to happen mostly when a lot of screen activity is going on like a screensaver or when loading a web page. I cannot access another virtual console in this condition. It will run possibly a couple of hours before happening. I suspect it is an X-server hiccup. I'm using the proprietory Nvidia video driver, but it does the same with the non-Nvidia driver. My question is: What is the best way to troubleshoot a problem like this? Any logs I should look at, or there any secret key sequences to unlock the freeze? I have 13.1 running on a Toshiba laptop with absolutely no problems. Thanks, Larry
From: Mikhail Zotov on 2 Jul 2010 16:42 On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:21:05 -0400 Larry <lkirkland(a)sc.rr.com> wrote: .... > My question is: ... > or there any secret key sequences to unlock the freeze? As a rule, keep Alt+SysRq pressed and press R S E I U B making 2-3 second pauses between letters. Check the newsgroup or google for the details of `magic Alt+SysRq'. -- Mikhail P.S. I had a similar problem on one of the machines running 13.1. I didn't have time to dig into it thus just disabled xscreensaver. This fixed the problem.
From: Larry on 3 Jul 2010 10:54 Larry wrote: > I have Slackware 13.1 dual-booting with Slackware 12.2 on a AMD Sempron > desktop. 12.2 is stable as a rock and has been since installed. 13.1 > tends to randomly freeze up locking the cursor and keyboard. It seems > to happen mostly when a lot of screen activity is going on like a > screensaver or when loading a web page. I cannot access another virtual > console in this condition. It will run possibly a couple > of hours before happening. I suspect it is an X-server hiccup. I'm > using the proprietory Nvidia video driver, but it does the same with the > non-Nvidia driver. > > My question is: What is the best way to troubleshoot a problem like > this? Any logs I should look at, or there any secret key sequences to > unlock the freeze? > > I have 13.1 running on a Toshiba laptop with absolutely no problems. > > Thanks, > Larry I made a copy of my old 12.2 xorg.conf file and substituted it for the one 13.1 was using and all seems to be fine. No crash in 12 hours (knock on wood). I have not done a detailed check of the differences between the two files, but it looks like the monitor sweep frequency ranges are a lot different. The 12.2 file references some font paths that don't exist in 13.1 , so that needs fixing. 12.2 loads the "glx" module but 13.1 does not. I'll keep playing with it. Thanks for your help. Larry
From: Mike Jones on 3 Jul 2010 18:44 Responding to Larry: > Larry wrote: >> I have Slackware 13.1 dual-booting with Slackware 12.2 on a AMD Sempron >> desktop. 12.2 is stable as a rock and has been since installed. 13.1 >> tends to randomly freeze up locking the cursor and keyboard. It seems >> to happen mostly when a lot of screen activity is going on like a >> screensaver or when loading a web page. I cannot access another virtual >> console in this condition. It will run possibly a couple of hours >> before happening. I suspect it is an X-server hiccup. I'm using the >> proprietory Nvidia video driver, but it does the same with the >> non-Nvidia driver. >> >> My question is: What is the best way to troubleshoot a problem like >> this? Any logs I should look at, or there any secret key sequences to >> unlock the freeze? >> >> I have 13.1 running on a Toshiba laptop with absolutely no problems. >> >> Thanks, >> Larry > > I made a copy of my old 12.2 xorg.conf file and substituted it for the > one 13.1 was using and all seems to be fine. No crash in 12 hours > (knock on wood). I have not done a detailed check of the differences > between the two files, but it looks like the monitor sweep frequency > ranges are a lot different. The 12.2 file references some font paths > that don't exist in 13.1 , so that needs fixing. 12.2 loads the "glx" > module but 13.1 does not. > I'll keep playing with it. Thanks for your help. Larry Thats the problem with auto-setup stuff. It cannot substitute for a clue and a decent text editor. While I applaud the work of all the teams that constantly work to improve Linux in all it's forms, I wish some of them would remember to leave the manual setup options in place. -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs.
From: Aaron W. Hsu on 3 Jul 2010 23:51
Larry <lkirkland(a)sc.rr.com> writes: >I have Slackware 13.1 dual-booting with Slackware 12.2 on a AMD Sempron >desktop. 12.2 is stable as a rock and has been since installed. 13.1 >tends to randomly freeze up locking the cursor and keyboard. It seems >to happen mostly when a lot of screen activity is going on like a >screensaver or when loading a web page. I cannot access another virtual >console in this condition. It will run possibly a couple >of hours before happening. I suspect it is an X-server hiccup. I'm >using the proprietory Nvidia video driver, but it does the same with the >non-Nvidia driver. >My question is: What is the best way to troubleshoot a problem like >this? Any logs I should look at, or there any secret key sequences to >unlock the freeze? I can't really say if this is a problem that you are encountering, and I'm not sure that you will want to do this, but I had a problem running the mwm window manager that is part of OpenMotif, and I was lucky enough to stumble upon this: http://my.opera.com/arcfide/blog/2010/07/04/motif-and-slackware-13-1 That's just my blog post which summarizes the problem. Maybe it can help you. Aaron W. Hsu |