Peter Alfredsen wrote:
On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Philip Webb wrote:
which does not offer any helpful advice.
There are no bugs answering to 'Epiphany freeze' or 'Konqueror freeze'.
I'm using Kernel 2.6.18-gentoo, KDE 3.5.6 , Epiphany 2.16.3 & Xorg-x11 7.1
. Otherwise, my system is very stable & problem-free.
I'm experiencing something similar at equally random intervals. I have had
maybe 3 of these freezes since the end of December. I am reasonably sure it
is not memory, since I have emerge -e world 3-4 times since then (don't ask)
and I have never had any unreproducible gcc errors. At one time I had a
routine that helped me replicate the problem (now I just avoid it):
Go to forums.gentoo.org, grab a thread with massive posts. Click-drag a link
quickly in circles. Boom!
The last freeze I had was last week, when I had 10 Konqueror windows open with
on average 3 tabs each. Rtorrent was running in the background and suddenly
my system deadlocked. I could still move the mouse but I couldn't click on
anything. I suspect that if I could bother to write down the magic SYSRQ
keys, I would be able to do a clean reboot.
The program I suspect is Konqueror (probably bad interaction with fglrx),
since that is always open. I also always have Kmail, Konversation, Akregator,
AmaroK, rtorrent and Kate running, though.
AMD Athlon 2500+
Ati X800 fglrx AGP
1 GB ram
~X86
Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 (waiting for someone to make a stable .20)
Have you tried a 2.6.20 kernel just for grins (taking note of "waiting
for someone to make a stable .20" )? I experienced various lockups /
freezes with 2.6.19 that seem to have left me when I went to 2.6.20. I
was getting various timeouts on my ata controller that show in the logs
as the source of the freezes. Of course I run ck-sources, so I don't
know if the problem existed with the kernel itself or the ck patches.
My freezes would occur in firefox mostly of course I am almost always
browsing the Internet for something.
Of course, I just joined the gentoo-user mailing list today so forgive
me if this was already mentioned.
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