Re: NVidia drops off bus
On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 08:30 -0800, Joseph Areeda wrote: Hi All, I've been getting random crashes of X on my development workstation with messages like: on console: cpu #X stuck in [X:...] .xsession-errors contain things like: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. /var/log/messages has NVRM: GPU at :01:00.0 has fallen off the bus. Most things I've been able to find suggest a driver vs. kernel problem so I updated to the latest driver from NVidia (346.35) with no luck. Have others seen this? Any hints? Could it be the NVidia card failing? Thanks, Joe Hi, I have seen this once before with a persons system. The issue in that case was a bad physical connection. Removing the card, cleaning the connections and reseating the card corrected the issue. Regards Phil signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: NVidia drops off bus
On 29 January 2015 at 09:41, Phil Wyett philwyett.vende...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 08:30 -0800, Joseph Areeda wrote: Hi All, I've been getting random crashes of X on my development workstation with messages like: on console: cpu #X stuck in [X:...] .xsession-errors contain things like: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. /var/log/messages has NVRM: GPU at :01:00.0 has fallen off the bus. Most things I've been able to find suggest a driver vs. kernel problem so I updated to the latest driver from NVidia (346.35) with no luck. Have others seen this? Any hints? Could it be the NVidia card failing? Thanks, Joe Hi, I have seen this once before with a persons system. The issue in that case was a bad physical connection. Removing the card, cleaning the connections and reseating the card corrected the issue. Another place I have seen it is where the connector is bad. Sometimes it is the motherboard and sometimes it is the video board. Works fine until the system got warm and then it quit working. In the case of the video board it was a simple replace and get working. In the case of the motherboard, it was only found because the cards worked fine in other systems but not this one. Regards Phil -- Stephen J Smoogen.
Re: NVidia drops off bus
Thank you all! I will try cleaning the connectors and reseating. It's about time for its routine cleaning. Best, Joe On 01/29/2015 08:34 AM, Rich wrote: In my experience, that means the card is either overheating or failing. Don't know what card it is, but those are your options. - Rich On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Joseph Areeda newsre...@areeda.com wrote: Hi All, I've been getting random crashes of X on my development workstation with messages like: on console: cpu #X stuck in [X:...] .xsession-errors contain things like: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. /var/log/messages has NVRM: GPU at :01:00.0 has fallen off the bus. Most things I've been able to find suggest a driver vs. kernel problem so I updated to the latest driver from NVidia (346.35) with no luck. Have others seen this? Any hints? Could it be the NVidia card failing? Thanks, Joe
Re: clonezilla or equivalent
On 01/29/2015 12:32 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: The target hard drive is supposed to have no file system format (just the low level format from the manufacturer) -- not MS Windows, Mac OS X, or any other file system format. It is supposed to be brand new raw. The way I've always prepped a disk for cloning is to run (booted from a live CD and with no other drives in the system for safety): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=10240k count=100 where X is the actual device letter. This zeroes out the first 1GB of space; you can do more, or less, as long as you zero out the first few tens of MB you should be ok.
Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?
Hi, If I download the Oracle rpm for 1.8, do the necessary links in /etc/alternatives, remove Open JDK 1.7 and make sure the enviroment variables are correct, do I avoid crashes (or silent errors) -- to the best of more experienced SL users' knowledge, of course? Some of what I do depends on Java version 1.8 andI need to do something. (On other distos, I would just do it (and did with Ubuntu), but SL7 docs carry strong warnings about introducting conflicts.) Thank you. Mark Hansel Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice Minnesota State University Moorhead han...@mnstate.edu han...@hanselshire.org
Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:30 PM, hansel han...@mnstate.edu wrote: Hi, If I download the Oracle rpm for 1.8, do the necessary links in /etc/alternatives, remove Open JDK 1.7 and make sure the enviroment variables are correct, do I avoid crashes (or silent errors) -- to the best of more experienced SL users' knowledge, of course? Some of what I do depends on Java version 1.8 andI need to do something. (On other distos, I would just do it (and did with Ubuntu), but SL7 docs carry strong warnings about introducting conflicts.) Thank you. Mark Hansel Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice Minnesota State University Moorhead han...@mnstate.edu han...@hanselshire.org Why would you want to? openjdk-1.8.0 is available directly as part of RHEL and Scientific Linux, with source code, Installing either jdk-1.8.0 or opndk-1.8.0 can be done along with openjdk-1.7.0, And it does *not* replace /usr/bin/java, so you can activate it on an application by application basis by using the symlinks in /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0, or /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0 for javac.
