On Wednesday 28 May 2003 22:07, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Peeps, > > There have been an alarming number of system freezes here recently, and > I guess I'm not so much looking for a solution as I am for other LM91 > users that have been experiencing similar things. > > There have been other system lockups, but I viewed them as anomalies at > the time, and did not take notice of the circumstances at those times. > However the last lockup was recent enough that I still had my ears > pricked up. There were several applications open at the same time, > several of which usually work without incident together. Evolution, > Eterms (3), mplayer (CLI mode), xclock, qmail, Enlightenment, chronyd, > esd, and kdm. The other app that I do not usually run was drakconf. I > was composing an email in Evo, and drakconf had been open for perhaps 30 > seconds. At the end of that 30 secs the cursor disappeared from Evo's > composer window, and the system went unresponsive. > > Although E was still showing a desktop and the cursor could move about > the screen, mouse clicking did nothing, as did ctrl-alt-backspace or > cntrl-alt-del. No go with cntrl-alt-f1 thru 6 either. > > In the end the only recourse was the reset switch. The filesystem btw > is XFS, and no problem with recovery this time. However I did not > experience troubles of this sort under 8.2, so let me knock the hardware > suggestions in the head right off the bat. According to LM82 the HW is > immaculate (and has not changed); in addition, all LM91 updates have > been applied. > > Has anyone else experienced similar situations or is my situation > unique? > > --LX
Not quiet the way you describe it. I was happy enough using RC2 awaiting 9.1 final. Recently (last week) I upgraded which wasn't a big deal as I kept everything updated anyway. I have had a few lock ups which I blamed on my kyrosII video card and the powerVR patches which are actually meant to be for mdk8.2, nothing like that before though! In general I've a feeling the whole install is less stable i.e. locks up for no apparent reason---it just doesn't feel right. My gui works a little more stable since I use the non-fb boot option so I'll keep a lookout for error messages as of now. So actually my gut feeling says: XFree86-4! Anyway, I'm not upgrading any of my other machines before I'm sure though. Good luck, HarM
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