Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-09 Thread John Hasler
Patrick writes: > I assume that whoever responds to these bug reports has a better idea > than I do about where the fault lies. As far as I could tell, and I > asked here first and had lots of confirmations, the fault rested with > network-manager, and so that's where I reported the bug. And that

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> remedy is to hold down the power button until it powers down.  The >> reason I suspect Network-Manager is twofold: (1) the freeze only > > It may very well be that network-manager triggers the bug, but such > a freeze is clear evidence of a

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> remedy is to hold down the power button until it powers down. The > reason I suspect Network-Manager is twofold: (1) the freeze only It may very well be that network-manager triggers the bug, but such a freeze is clear evidence of a bug in (some part of) the kernel. So please report it there.

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 03:29:00PM -0500, gn643202 wrote: > >I have had the same problem. >Searched Synaptic but could not find the WICD package in Lenny. > > I went ahead and installed wicd from backports. I've tested the connection swapping and it will request and receive an address aut

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 07:54:45PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Done. > > Patrick > > I should have added I filed #527842 earlier today. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=527842 -- Daryl Styrk Naples, FL USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > gn643202 schreef: >> thveillon.debian wrote: >>> Patrick Wiseman wrote: ... Yesterday, my system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen.  (A qu

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
gn643202 schreef: > thveillon.debian wrote: >> Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> ... Yesterday, my >>> system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock >>> LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen. (A quick >>> Google search suggests that's a sign of kernel panic.)

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread thveillon.debian
gn643202 wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote: >> Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> ... Yesterday, my >>> system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock >>> LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen. (A quick >>> Google search suggests that's a sign of kernel panic.) T

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 03:29:00PM -0500, gn643202 wrote: > >I have had the same problem. >Searched Synaptic but could not find the WICD package in Lenny. > > -- > Jerry Perkins Looks to be in backports. http://tinyurl.com/pp72ne I don't really have a serious need for wicd here.. I rare

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread gn643202
thveillon.debian wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote: ... Yesterday, my system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen. (A quick Google search suggests that's a sign of kernel panic.) The only remedy is to hold down the

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:17:25PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Thanks for the info - my system comes up cleanly after I power down, > though, and I'm pretty sure that the keyboard is completely > unresponsive when it freezes like this. I'll see if it reproduces > later (when I have access t

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:53:58AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I have a Lenovo T61p running an amd64 testing system.  Yesterday, my >> system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock >> LED flashing, as it

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:04 PM, thveillon.debian wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I have a Lenovo T61p running an amd64 testing system.  Yesterday, my >> system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock >> LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:53:58AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi: > > I have a Lenovo T61p running an amd64 testing system. Yesterday, my > system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock > LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen. (A quick > Google s

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread thveillon.debian
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi: > > I have a Lenovo T61p running an amd64 testing system. Yesterday, my > system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock > LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen. (A quick > Google search suggests that's a sign of kernel pan

Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi: I have a Lenovo T61p running an amd64 testing system. Yesterday, my system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen. (A quick Google search suggests that's a sign of kernel panic.) The only remedy is to hold do