Re: Pls Help System freeze

From: phran (phran_at_web.de)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:26:10 +0100

Charles Prince wrote:

> As a starter you need your system logs, which by the sounds of things you
> have been reading through, to determine if there are any problems
> occurring.
the system logs didnt have any entry at the time the freeze happened.
The only entry was that i logged in by ssh later.
>
> Also when you ssh in, investigate the system using tools such as ps, df,
> free; etc to see which processes are hogging the system resources and if
> you have memory leaks; etc.
i used top to see which processes are running. the only process running
was X, all others sleeping, no stopped ones and no zobies. Memory and
Swap file had enough free space. The cpu was also not very busy.
After replugging the usb mouse, it kept working, but no change.
Then i killed X, but the screen and keyboard stayed frozen
> You could also check to see if you are running out of disk space on your
> tmp directory or your log directory. It should not be the problem but I
> am always surprised just how many times this has become a factor on some
> systems that generate a large amount of logging. Though in your case it
> seems this is not the problem as you can ssh to the server.
yes,i also checked that. but all partitions had still enough place.
>
> Also if you have purchased 9.0 then contact SuSe helpdesk.
i am using the ftp version

Now i updated the XFree version to 4.3.0.1 and the driver for my ati
radeon 9200 to fglrx-3.7.6, maybe that helps somehow.
But i am still wondering what can be the problem, because i wonder how
the screen and keyboard can be dead but the mouse still moving. And why
it happens just in the situation moving a window. maybe it is a problem
with kde. if it happens again maybe i will switch to gnome and see if it
happens there too.

> Good luck.
  thank you

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