Re: System Hangs / Locks Up / Crashes Frequently
- From: Bill Roberts <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:13:49 -0400
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:41:55 +0000, Martin Horsley wrote:
Hi,I had a similar problem when I first installed my SUSE 10.0. It would
I am new to Suse, and not exactly a pro with Linux in general, so I'm
really looking for some pointers as to where else I can look for
diagnostic output to try and solve this problem I'm seeing.
Installed openSuse 10.2 on my home-build PC, which has been dual-booting
XP and Fedora (Core 4) with the current hardware set for months
problem-free (or as problem free as XP gets!). More often in XP though.
Anyway, fancied a change and checking out Suse as I've never used it
before. So formatted over Fedora and installed it, no problems. Once
booted, the system stays up for a few minutes and then locks up solid. No
mouse, no keyboard, no ctrl+alt, no ssh in from my laptop, nothing. Dead.
It's never lasted more than an hour, but during the minutes I've been
given I have got my wi-fi working (ACX100), updated to the latest patches,
added mp3 support, but that's about it. Everything about the system runs
perfectly - in fact Suse seems to be pretty fit on my rig, until it
crashes. So, nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing in dmesg, nothing
anywhere I can see. Seems it locks up so hard it doesn't have time to
write anything, although that's only an impression.
I have pulled out all USB periphs (except mouse), removed all CD drives
and second HD, pulled the sound card, pulled the wifi card, disabled the
onboard ethernet (not using that anyway), pulled out the memory and
swapped over / tested each chip, all to no avail. Can't pull the gfx card
as no on-board gfx.
So has anyone got any ideas what it could be or what I can do to track
down the problem?
I've attached an excerpt of messages showing a boot, and the output of the
Suse system info thing. It's a Pent4 2.26GHz on Gigabyte GA-IPE100 (Intel
865) board with 768MB RAM, ATi Radeon 9700, SB Audigy2, D-Link DWL-520+
wi-fi card.
Thanks, Martin.
even occur during the install. The system would be running along, happy
as a clam, then suddenly freeze up. No response to key clicks, mouse
movements, disk activity stops. I finally tracked it down to the driver
for my Nvidia G6500 vidio on the motherboard. I got around it by doing a
minimal install in text mode mode, then loading the latest and greatest
driver, then doing an upgrade to what I really wanted in YaST. Might be a
similar problem.
Hope this helps.
.
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