[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
Hmm, I may have solved the problem. As I mentioned above, I tried using Feisty and the problem seemed worse. However, there was a message early in the boot phase that made me wonder... MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC A bit of internet sleuthing led me to add noapic to the grub boot defaults. And, things seem to work just fine now - no hangups after a fairly extensive wringing-out yesterday and this morning. Right now I even have desktop effects enabled just to really try hard to break things! Interesting that some of the Internet discussion of the 8254 timer problem relate back to Dapper. I don't recall ever seeing the message in Dapper, but that was some time ago now. The message certainly never showed up in Edgy, though it may have been concealed by the splash. Anyway, I think I will close this bug report, and soldier optimistically on. -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
I have tried Feisty and I seem to have the same problem there, too, only much worse; sometimes I can't even finish running the install app. I did manage to get Feisty running for awhile. Here are some things that seemed odd, relative to this problem: - once again, my screen saver would not engage. though I finally got it to start working by setting it to lock the screen as well; - at one point, I had the system activity monitor running, when I clicked on the Firefox icon. The screen froze before firefox could start, and the top process in the system activity monitor was Firefox in an uninterruptible state. - at another point, the windows had frozen. I played around with the ctrl-alt-f1, f2, etc. I was able to get a login window, enter my name and password, but at that point I did not get a shell prompt, though returns were still echoed back to the screen. In some desperation, I tried my toshiba's Fn keys for suspend, resume, and so forth. When I pressed the switch screen key, I suddenly received a shell prompt, and was able to do a ps and a couple of other things - but then things froze again. So, to sum up. Right now, I'm running Edgy, and I can pretty much count on one screen hangup per day. I cannot upgrade to Feisty because it will not run without hanging up for more than an hour or so. This is a really serious problem. I have no idea what to do about it. I do not wish to stop using Ubuntu. -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
I ran memtest last night, from about 11PM until about 7AM today. It went through 17 passes and detected no errors. -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
Here's the modified xorg.conf Note that I have had one hang-up already today. ** Attachment added: xorg.conf http://librarian.launchpad.net/7336140/xorg.conf -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
Hi Brian, quacklin; Is quacklin having a similar problem to mine? I can't tell from the above... Anyway, some more information. Over the weekend, I tried Feisty beta. I had similar hang up problems, but much more frequently... I could not get more than one hour of work in before the system would hang. This was true with both Kubuntu and Ubuntu. Note I was using a fresh install from CD on a brand-new hard drive of a slightly different type than I use for Edgy, in both cases. So, back to Edgy. Next, on Saturday (two days ago) I had a hang-up happen when I was using Gmail inside Firefox with Edgy; I was still able to type in the composition window for quite some time after I stopped being able to actually move windows around, close them, etc. Eventually, I would say after at least one minute, everything froze up. Another thing - when windows become unresponsive in this hang up thing, I can usually (maybe always) CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, at which time all windows and menu bars disappear but the screen background image usually (maybe always) stays in place, with a frozen mouse pointer. Sometimes, at that point, I can get a partially operational console window, but as soon as I try to do something like ps it loses its communication with anything that matters (though I still get characters echoed back to the screen). On the theory that there's something funny with my Xorg setup, I edited the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to get rid of the incorrect font file paths and the references to the Wacom tablet. This gave me less warnings and errors in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. The remaining ones that seem to perhaps be of concern are: (WW) RADEON(0): Unknown DDCType 5 found (WW) RADEON(0): LCD DDC Info Table found! (WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ... (WW) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION was: 0x3fff3800 is: 0x3fff3800 (WW) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0xffc0 is: 0xd27fd200 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x24 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x25 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x26 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x27 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x28 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x29 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2a (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2b (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2c (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2d (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2e (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2f (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x30 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x31 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x32 error opening security policy file /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/, removing from list! ProcXCloseDevice to close or not ? I have attached the Xorg.0.log file here; I will attach the xorg.conf file in the next comment ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log http://librarian.launchpad.net/7336128/Xorg.0.log -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
One last thing. When my machine hung up this morning, I did a CTRL- ALT-BACKSPACE (which made everything but the window background vanish) and then tried to get a console login with ALT-Fx. I was able to get a login prompt but not a password prompt. Finally I power-cycled the machine. Once again, there are no error messages in /var/log/syslog covering that period of time: Apr 16 08:56:16 dabuntu -- MARK -- Apr 16 09:16:17 dabuntu -- MARK -- Apr 16 09:17:01 dabuntu /USR/SBIN/CRON[6958]: (root) CMD ( run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Apr 16 09:36:17 dabuntu -- MARK -- Apr 16 09:56:17 dabuntu -- MARK -- Apr 16 10:02:01 dabuntu /USR/SBIN/CRON[8056]: (root) CMD (if [ -x /usr/sbin/pg_maintenance ]; then /usr/sbin/pg_maintenance --analyze /dev/null; fi) Apr 16 10:16:17 dabuntu -- MARK -- Apr 16 10:17:01 dabuntu /USR/SBIN/CRON[8427]: (root) CMD ( run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Apr 16 10:36:17 dabuntu -- MARK -- Apr 16 10:56:17 dabuntu -- MARK -- Apr 16 11:07:19 dabuntu syslogd 1.4.1#18ubuntu6: restart. In conclusion, I'm assuming this is a problem caused by the video subsystem, but I'm not sure. And I really don't know what to do to diagnose it any further. -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
Please run memtest to see if memory is broken. Let it run for a couple of cycles to be sure -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
I have run memtest more than twice, for more than four hours the last time. However, I will start it up tonight and let it run until the morning, in case. On the subject of memory, is it possible there is some kind of conflict between what the graphics card thinks is its memory and what the rest of the system wants? Is there any way to check this kind of thing? -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
and this is mine as requested ** Attachment added: xorg.conf http://librarian.launchpad.net/7284485/xorg.conf -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
and this is the log, just after a reboot due to a sudden block (probably skype fault) ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log http://librarian.launchpad.net/7284511/Xorg.0.log -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
Thanks for the response, Brian. Here is /var/log/Xorg.0.log. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log http://librarian.launchpad.net/7177663/Xorg.0.log -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
and here is /etc/X11/xorg.conf ** Attachment added: xorg.conf http://librarian.launchpad.net/7177666/xorg.conf -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
I probably should mention that there is no system hang covered by the period of this Xorg.0.log -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 98999] Re: [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add your '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' file and your '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' file as attachments to your bug report? Thanks in advance. ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None = xorg Assignee: (unassigned) = Brian Murray Status: Unconfirmed = Needs Info -- [Edgy] - hangs, windows become unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
