On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Wassim Bassalee wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thank you for your response.
> I noticed considerable slowdown when browsing the Internet. When looking
> at the connectivity (indicated by the lights on the modem) I found that it was
> going on and off. Juggling the cables slightly seemed to give a steady light on
> the modem but Internet browsing showed no improvement. As a matter of fact,
> mouse movement and the entire system became extremely slow and minutes later
> completely unresponsive.
> I couldn't open a terminal, so I rebooted the system. The problem appeared
> since.
The slowdown sounds like perhaps something bad happened in the kernel.
Were you able to shutdown cleanly or did you have to hit the reset switch.
There may have been disk corruption, in which case, installing a new
X-server might be a good idea (try something newer like 4.3 while you're
at it). Or it's possible that this bad stuff was due to some device acting
weird. Are the /var/log/messages that look suspicious (like panics) back
from when the slowdown happened? Anyhow, it sounds like a system-level
problem, perhaps a hardware problem. Do you have problems with overheating?
You also might want to check that all your cards and ram are plugged in
securely.
I'm assuming it's not a new machine and you haven't changed anything
recently (like adding new ram)?
Mark.
>
> Now that you are asking about PCI, I noticed in the boot log the following
> lines:
> <6>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfa174, last bus=1
> <6>PCI: Using configuration type 1
> <6>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> <3>Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
> <3>Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent
> <3>Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
> <6>PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:14.0
> <6>PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 01:00.0
> <6>PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:03.0
> <6>PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
>
> and later
>
> <6>PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:04.0
> <6>PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:14.5
> <6>Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of
> <4>lspci -vv, this message (134d, 7897, 134d, 0001)
> <4>and the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board
> <4>to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <4>register_serial(): autoconfig failed
>
> Also when booting the machine interactively I was able to find the following
> failures:
>
> Starting ia64fmt: Installing IA-64 interpreters: mount: none
> already mounted or /proc/sys/fs/bin-fmt-misc busy
> mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on
> /proc/sys/fs/bin-fmt-misc [FAILED]
> Starting devfsd deamon: Error opening file: ".devfsd"
> No such file or directory [FAILED]
>
> Do you think that this is a problem with the X server itslef or with something
> else?
>
> Quoting Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Something catastrophic seems to have happened at a low-level.
> > That "Cannot read colourmap from VGA" message seems to imply
> > that writing or reading the video hardware has failed. Did you
> > change something about the machine? For instance, some bios
> > settings, or add a new PCI card?
> >
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Wassim Bassalee wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > The X server on my Mandrake 9.0 Linux
> > > machine stopped booting yesterday.
> > > The XFree86.0.log is attached to this
> > > e-mail message.
> > > I'll truly appreciate any suggestions
> > > on where to proceed from here.
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Wassim
> >
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