Re: Suse 9.1 locking up

From: baskitcaise (baskitcaise_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:25:28 +0100

R.H. adjusted his/her tin foil beanie and asbestos underwear to write:

> I just installed Suse 9.1 for the 5th or 6th time now. It tends to
> ranomly lockup and the mouse won't move nor will any of the keys to
> shut
> down the X server. The only thing to do is to hit the reset button.
> At first I thought it was some kind of conflict, but then I installed
> Mandarake 10 just to see and all my problems went away. I would
> really
> like to use Suse so I was wondering if anyone might know what is
> wrong
> and how to fix this problem. I will probably go back to 8.2 just to
> get things working again, but I would appreciate any help.
>

Hi Roger,

Bit more info needed please:-

When does it lock, KDE, Gnome, Console?
What are you doing when it locks?
What hardware?
Have you updated anything or installed non standard Suse stuff?
Do your keyboard leds flash?

Instead of pressing reset ( you stand to lose data and probably corrupt
your fs ) enable Sys-req in Yast>system>editor for sysconfig it is in
the System>Kernel>Enable Sysrq menu, this might give you the chance to
sync the disks by pressing various combinations of keys
( For further information see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt )

HTH 

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Mark
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