Re: Squeeze freeze

2012-12-15 Thread Bill Harris
Bob Proulx writes: > It is quite safe. You can always try it now and if it doesn't have > any success for you then you can remove it without lingering issues of > having had it installed. Example: Thanks, Bob, for the detailed instructions. Bill -- Bill Harris Facilitated S

Re: Squeeze freeze

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Harris wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > Sorry, no idea about the freezes except maybe to try a newer kernel > > (backports has 3.2). > > Thanks. I see that now. I'll think about it (and research what I'd > have to do in addition to installing it). I've been staying mostly with > Stable

Re: Squeeze freeze

2012-12-09 Thread Bill Harris
Andrei POPESCU writes: > Have you tried unplugging and pulling out the battery after the (forced) > shutdown? Andrei, Yep. I left it out for 30-60 seconds, which has worked on other laptops in the past, and it wasn't successful. > Sorry, no idea about the freezes except maybe to try a newer

Re: Squeeze freeze

2012-12-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 08 dec 12, 09:17:48, Bill Harris wrote: > > When it freezes, I haven't found a way to power off except with the > power switch, and I haven't found a way to reboot except by booting > into W7 or Suse first and then coming back to Squeeze. Have you tried unplugging and pulling out the

Squeeze freeze

2012-12-08 Thread Bill Harris
After 136 days up, I had a hard freeze Wednesday evening, December 5--the system was unresponsive to the mouse, trackpad, keyboard, attempts to get to a virtual console, and REISUB. I had to hold the power button down to shut it off. Then it would lock up partway through subsequent boot processes

[SUSPENDED]: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-21 Thread Itay
Due to a failure in reproducing the problem I suspend the discussion in this thread. Hopefully I should not return to it later... ;-) Itay On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Itay wrote: Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:28:59 +0300 (IDT) From: Itay To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: squeeze freeze

Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-21 Thread Itay
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:59:10 + (UTC) From: Camaleón To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB) Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:59:47 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:55:45 +0300, Itay wrote: (...) > + I couldn't find out anything suspicious in /var/log/syslog. >(But honestly I don't know what to look for: what is kernel > soft-lock?) here there is a good explanation on what soft/hard locks here (scroll down to "A Classificatio

Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-14 Thread Itay
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: Does the same card work on you rsqueeze system when using a card reader? I don't have a card reader. I always dumped the photos directly from the camera. And that can be the problem, the camera and not the memory card. Using a card reader will help you

Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-08-13 a las 21:54 +0300, Itay escribió: (resending to the list) > On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Does it happen when copying the files using GUI-based tools (like >> nautilus or dolphin) or it also happens when you use MC or console? > > It happens using command line. Oops, t

Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:59:20 +0300, Itay wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: > > >>> Using both cards, same camera and connection, on another machine + >>> lenny doesn't produce this effect either. >> >> Does the same card work on you rsqueeze system when using a card >> reader? >> >>

Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-13 Thread Itay
I have just noticed that I replied directly to Camaleon instead of the list. My appologies, Camealeon. The reply is included below. Itay On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Itay wrote: Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:54:50 +0300 (IDT) From: Itay To: Camaleón Subject: Re: squeeze freeze while copying from

Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-13 Thread Itay
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: Using both cards, same camera and connection, on another machine + lenny doesn't produce this effect either. Does the same card work on you rsqueeze system when using a card reader? I don't have a card reader. I always dumped the photos directly from

Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-13 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:28:59 +0300, Itay wrote: > After upgrading to squeeze from lenny I cannot copy photos from the 8GB > memory card. Worse: the computer freezes, I lose the mouse and the > keyboard (attached via USB) and have to make hard-shutdown. I can mount > the file-system, but very quic

squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-12 Thread Itay
After upgrading to squeeze from lenny I cannot copy photos from the 8GB memory card. Worse: the computer freezes, I lose the mouse and the keyboard (attached via USB) and have to make hard-shutdown. I can mount the file-system, but very quickly it will appear as if it was never mounted: cd, l