[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 585765] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes
I've posted on this before. I was getting black screen freezes first on ubuntu, then on pclinuxos. Sometimes stable for up to a day - sometimes crashed 3/4 times in a day. The issue appears to be finally resolved - I just installed new Debian release squeeze a couple of days back. No crashsince. Seems debian is living up to it's rock solid reputation so far. I'm keeping my fingers crossed ... but so far so good. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765 Title: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 585765] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes
I've posted a couple of times before...last time I was moving to PC Linux OS Anyway, I've be using that for a while but had exactly the same issues there i.e. random black-screen crashes For me, I've always suspected the video-card/intel video drivers were responsible. One reason is that I could reproduce the crash every time in both ubuntu and pc linux by running Test Video Card To try to fix the issue, I recently bought a cheap maxtor video card to put into the machine and try out. But I haven't been able to get that to work at all in my dell desktop. That got me tweaking the bios - BTW: I've got an old Pentium 4 Dell Optiplex GX260 Desktop In the bios is a setting Onboard Video Buffer which could be set as 1MB or 8MB. It was set to 1 and I changed it to 8MB. After that, I could successfully run the Video Card Test without fail so at this point I'm very hopeful my issue is sorted. I have never ever been able to do that and the symptom was always the same black screen crash. Info provided in case anyone else could benefit from this bios setting also. I have not had a crash since (couple of days) but it's too early to say anything for sure at this point. Will post again if I do have a crash. Conor P.S. I'm sticking with PC Linux OS for now as I find some of it's apps better after using it for a while, and I have a lot of new apps installed which I don't want to reinstall on a fresh ubuntu system. P. P.S. My video card details are (from command: lspci -vv) - 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 0126 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at e800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 1: Memory at fe90 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Expansion ROM at unassigned [disabled] Capabilities: access denied Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915, intelfb On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:02 PM, John Bruno seldoviacomput...@gmail.comwrote: My issue only freezes the mouse pointer (System is still stable and responds to KB commands). I did remove Pulseaudio last night and installed oss4, if anything the freeze came even quicker, I've since gone back to pulseaudio. For what it's worth, I leave my system running all night playing either Video or MP3's and as long as the mouse is not moved, it never freezes. I'm basically at my whits end (Mouse #2 just froze, switching to usb mouse #3). If I can't find a solution soon I'm going to try 2.6.31RT Kernel. -- Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hello, on my new laptop, a HP ProBook 6440b (with Core i5 and a plain Intel Chipset, 4GB RAM) I get randomly freezes of the whole system. I can't reproduce that, what means I don't know a aplication or usage of the system making it freeze. sometimes I have uptimes of a day, without freeze and sometimes it freezes right after booting the system. I found out, that sometimes the MagicSysRQ (R-E-I-S-U-B) works and let me shut down the system, sometimes not. I don't know what makes that difference. In the system log I can't find any unusual entries. But I foun that the system log is still runing, so shuting down the wifi with the notebooks hardware switch for example is logged. Also the Wifi network connection to my router is not interrupted. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic 2.6.32-22.33 Regression: No Reproducible: No ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21. Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 2/2 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 AudioDevicesInUse: USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: florian1689 F pulseaudio CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xd490 irq 17' Mixer name : 'Intel G45 DEVIBX' Components : 'HDA:111d7603,103c1722,00100202 HDA:11c11040,103c3066,00100200 HDA:80862804,80860101,0010' Controls : 23 Simple ctrls : 14 Date: Wed May 26 11:03:07 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes Frequency: Once a
Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 585765] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes
Thanks for the info, I think I might give that PCLinuxOS a shot also based on your recommendationlooks fairly polished based on screenshots. I tried going back to ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) which was more bearable and although my Black Screen freezes have gone away, I still get an occasional freeze. (It's a lot less frequent than 10.04 though) On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:19 AM, thecityofgold 585...@bugs.launchpad.netwrote: After 4 years of Ubuntu and 3 months of random freezing I've migrated to PCLinuxOS. It is easy to install, works flawlessly, and is based on later packages than Ubuntu. It appears that Ubuntu devs do not give a c**p about a critical bug in their distribution. In that case, and with regret, the only way to gain stability is to look elsewhere. -- Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hello, on my new laptop, a HP ProBook 6440b (with Core i5 and a plain Intel Chipset, 4GB RAM) I get randomly freezes of the whole system. I can't reproduce that, what means I don't know a aplication or usage of the system making it freeze. sometimes I have uptimes of a day, without freeze and sometimes it freezes right after booting the system. I found out, that sometimes the MagicSysRQ (R-E-I-S-U-B) works and let me shut down the system, sometimes not. I don't know what makes that difference. In the system log I can't find any unusual entries. But I foun that the system log is still runing, so shuting down the wifi with the notebooks hardware switch for example is logged. Also the Wifi network connection to my router is not interrupted. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic 2.6.32-22.33 Regression: No Reproducible: No ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21. Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 2/2 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 AudioDevicesInUse: USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: florian1689 F pulseaudio CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xd490 irq 17' Mixer name : 'Intel G45 DEVIBX' Components : 'HDA:111d7603,103c1722,00100202 HDA:11c11040,103c3066,00100200 HDA:80862804,80860101,0010' Controls : 23 Simple ctrls : 14 Date: Wed May 26 11:03:07 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes Frequency: Once a day. HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=24088f3d-7be1-4efd-a05a-d1fac42086df InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx - Release amd64 (20100429) MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP ProBook 6440b ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=ac1bccdd-e231-45c3-bfde-991ae9549f0f ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANG=de_DE.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34 SourcePackage: linux dmi.bios.date: 01/27/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: 68CDD Ver. F.04 dmi.board.name: 1722 dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.board.version: KBC Version 29.2B dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68CDDVer.F.04:bd01/27/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPProBook6440b:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1722:rvrKBCVersion29.2B:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr: dmi.product.name: HP ProBook 6440b dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/585765/+subscribe -- Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 585765] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes
Well I bit the bullet and greetings from PCLinuxOS! Was slightly tricky for me to install.cause I had a blackscreen of death while installing. (does not bode well) Successfully installed in VESA mode, and then found it tricky to set the correct screen resolution...as I had 640 resolution and couldn't see much when I started up...but got there in the end. Cannot say I found it quite as easy to find my way around as I did with Ubuntu, but overall was relatively easy to setup and it appears to be working well. I'll post on stability after I've been using it for a bit... -- Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 585765] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes
Cheers Bob, Good for you! Obviously there is no problem then...we're all mad! On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:48 PM, BobMcD mcbo...@gmail.com wrote: FYI - I've been able to achieve 12 days of uptime thus far. Same duty cycle, same hardware, same software, etc. 10.04 will automatic updates, default settings (beyond specifying the server kernel image.) Only, 32bit - not 64. -- Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hello, on my new laptop, a HP ProBook 6440b (with Core i5 and a plain Intel Chipset, 4GB RAM) I get randomly freezes of the whole system. I can't reproduce that, what means I don't know a aplication or usage of the system making it freeze. sometimes I have uptimes of a day, without freeze and sometimes it freezes right after booting the system. I found out, that sometimes the MagicSysRQ (R-E-I-S-U-B) works and let me shut down the system, sometimes not. I don't know what makes that difference. In the system log I can't find any unusual entries. But I foun that the system log is still runing, so shuting down the wifi with the notebooks hardware switch for example is logged. Also the Wifi network connection to my router is not interrupted. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic 2.6.32-22.33 Regression: No Reproducible: No ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21. Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 2/2 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 AudioDevicesInUse: USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: florian1689 F pulseaudio CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xd490 irq 17' Mixer name : 'Intel G45 DEVIBX' Components : 'HDA:111d7603,103c1722,00100202 HDA:11c11040,103c3066,00100200 HDA:80862804,80860101,0010' Controls : 23 Simple ctrls : 14 Date: Wed May 26 11:03:07 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes Frequency: Once a day. HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=24088f3d-7be1-4efd-a05a-d1fac42086df InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx - Release amd64 (20100429) MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP ProBook 6440b ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=ac1bccdd-e231-45c3-bfde-991ae9549f0f ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANG=de_DE.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34 SourcePackage: linux dmi.bios.date: 01/27/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: 68CDD Ver. F.04 dmi.board.name: 1722 dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.board.version: KBC Version 29.2B dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68CDDVer.F.04:bd01/27/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPProBook6440b:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1722:rvrKBCVersion29.2B:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr: dmi.product.name: HP ProBook 6440b dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/585765/+subscribe -- Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 585765] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes
Well - as mentioned earlier - I was having problems earlier with random/sporadic Black Screens. Based on threads etc. I suspected problems with video drivers and intel chiopset. Anyhow I had reproducible test case (System Admin System Testing Video tests = Crash) After trying out a lot of fixes (new kernels yadda yadda) I finally bit the bullet and went back to ubuntu 9.10. So far stable. I tried the video tests, but the part where it cycles thru different resolution modes -where it usually crashed- is not in 9.10 so nothing definite at this point. I notice my xserver-xorg-video-intel is version 2:2.9.0-1lubunt2 I might try to install that particular driver on ubuntu 10.04 at some point (when I have time) to see what happens. In the mean time, I'll see how stable this baby is running on my dell optiplex gx260 Pentium 4. (Given I ran it successfully in past with win XP/wubi I'm hopeful) Seems to me like this thread is capturing information about a lot of different bugs and I have to say I'm really disappointed and disillusioned with ubuntu (esp. stability) at this point. Considering going to rock solid debianthis baby seems a helluva lot worse for crashing than windows 95 ever was. BTW: I'm loathe to ever take an update again I'm relative new to linux - my initial dabblings were very favorable but Ubuntu 10.04 seems to fall over more often than a drunken toddler! -- Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 585765] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes
People...please check to see if following steps reproduce it for you: System Admin System Tests Check only the Video Tests checkbox and run through the series of tests. -- Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 585765] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes
I have a dell optiplex gx 260 desktop box with Pentium 4 chip. Installed 10.04 - same issue - random black screen freezes. It is purely random, **but I have a way to reproduce it.** Run the: System Admin System Tests Check only the Video Tests checkbox and run through the series of tests. For me this always crashes (6 times out of 6 attempts), but not at the same point each time. I've configured grub to boot the 2.6.22-21 kernel which seems to exhibit the problem much less (2.6.22-23 is the killer for me) In fact I'm not sure I've seen it happen on 2.6.22-21 at all. If I run lspci -vv I see the following video card info: ... Intel Corp 82845G/Gl[Brookdale-G] GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device Don't know if there is any other info I could provide to help get a reproducible test case but perhaps others who have this problem could run the Video Tests to see if it happens for them. I've never tried to ssh into the box after a black scren -- Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 585765] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes
Oops, correction to my previous comment: wrong kernel versions mentioned 2.6.32-21 seems to be more stable than 2.6.32-23 (I has 22 instead of 32) -- Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
