On Monday 04 July 2011 19:12:50 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella did opine thusly: > 2011/7/4 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > What mine does: It sort of varies but usually when I login, it > > may last a couple minutes, usually less, then the Caps Lock and > > Scroll Lock LED's blink. The Num Lock key is off if that means > > anything. I tried the SysReq keys but it doesn't do anything > > at all. According to the messages at the next boot, it doesn't > > sync or umount either. The mouse pointer no longer moves > > either. At this point, I hit the reset button which causes > > steam to come out my ears. I HATE using that button. > > > > I'm fairly sure this is not hardware. > > You can never be sure about that. > > > Right now, I am in Fluxbox and it > > works fine. I also booted to single user and compiled a bunch > > of stuff and also tried a different kernel too. I think if it > > was hardware, it would have had some kind of hick-up during the > > compile. I did check temps and all is nice and cool, very cool > > since my A/C is on full blast. I think the oven is outside on > > full blast instead of in the kitchen. lol It's HOT here, > > steamy hot. > > You can try turning off the compositing system altogether. You can > do that by disabling the desktop effects in systemsettings. If > lockups stop then it's probably something to do with your graphics > driver and if that's the case you might have better luck with an > alternative driver.
I get frequent crashes that seem to be related to nouveau. When I used nvidia drivers, they seemed to have a mind of their own when it came to memory usage and segfaults. And the entire abomination that shall not be suffered to live called "kdepim" *definitely* has a mind of it's own. > > > I checked messages and the only thing I saw was about a bad > > option for hp-systray. Surely that wouldn't cause a crash? > > I'm going to unmerge and test it tho, just to be sure. > > I don't think so. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
