my computer somehwat froze earlier. I was trying to plug in a logitech mouse, and after my system wouldn't pick it up, i just put it aside to finish my work using my touchpad. but then why i tried to type something, nothing was being printed onto the screen. i kept going crazy with pressing random buttons alot(seems to work for toddlers that have a rubber hammer, aol commercial ). i'm wondering if that is why i got sooooooooooooooooooooooo many error messages. they where so many i couldn't post them, too many characters. but, you kinda get the idea when u see the pattern. i believe this might be from earlier, when it kinda froze, cuase somewhere in those error messages was a message that said i tried shuting down, which i did try to do earlier, but then i had to manualy hold down the power button cause all i got was a black screen with a cursor in the top left corner when i told it to shutdown properly.

Mar 15 10:37:10 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su
Mar 15 10:37:10 linux su: pam_unix2: session finished for user root, service su
Mar 15 10:37:10 linux su: (to root) jpolitis on /dev/pts/3
Mar 15 10:37:10 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su
Mar 15 10:39:34 linux kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
Mar 15 10:39:36 linux kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Mar 15 10:40:58 linux su: pam_unix2: session finished for user root, service su
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: ATAPI device hdc:
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x02)
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: The failed "Read Subchannel" packet command was:
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: "42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: ATAPI device hdc:
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x02)
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: The failed "Read Subchannel" packet command was:
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: "42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: ATAPI device hdc:
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x02)
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: The failed "Read Subchannel" packet command was:
Mar 15 10:44:44 linux kernel: "42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
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Mar 15 20:23:30 linux kernel: warning: many lost ticks.
Mar 15 20:23:30 linux kernel: Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
Mar 15 20:23:30 linux kernel: rip acpi_ec_read+0x150/0x181
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Mar 15 20:59:01 linux /usr/sbin/cron[7122]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
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Mar 15 21:06:23 linux kernel: ATAPI device hdc:
Mar 15 21:06:23 linux kernel: Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
Mar 15 21:06:23 linux kernel: (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x02)
Mar 15 21:06:23 linux kernel: The failed "Read Subchannel" packet command was:
Mar 15 21:06:23 linux kernel: "42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
Mar 15 21:06:24 linux kernel: ATAPI device hdc:
Mar 15 21:06:24 linux kernel: Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
Mar 15 21:06:24 linux kernel: (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x02)
Mar 15 21:06:24 linux kernel: The failed "Read Subchannel" packet command was:
Mar 15 21:06:24 linux kernel: "42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
Mar 15 21:06:24 linux kernel: ATAPI device hdc:
Mar 15 21:06:24 linux kernel: Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
Mar 15 21:06:24 linux kernel: (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x02)
Mar 15 21:06:24 linux kernel: The failed "Read Subchannel" packet command was:
Mar 15 21:06:24 linux kernel: "42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
Mar 15 21:15:43 linux kernel: usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using address 4
Mar 15 21:15:43 linux kernel: usb 2-1: Product: USB Receiver
Mar 15 21:15:43 linux kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Logitech
Mar 15 21:15:49 linux kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
Mar 15 21:15:49 linux kernel: evdev_connect: evdev 000001002681ac00 handle 000001002681ac20 name event3
Mar 15 21:15:49 linux kernel: input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:02.1-1
Mar 15 21:15:49 linux kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
Mar 15 21:15:49 linux kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver

I couldn't be 100% sure, but this looks to me like your system had a major problem talking to hdc, and this is what caused it to hang!

Nothing whatsoever to do with the mouse - the usb messages you have at the bottom of this log file look perfectly normal to me.

What do you mean by system log? Do you mean that these messages came from /var/log/syslog?

Cheers,

Steve

i believe that is where the messages came from. im using suse 9.2, and somewhere in control panel, under misc, there is an icon for system log and it prints it out in pretty form. i think it's what u are talking about.

my system seems to hang alot when i'm dealing with setting up ftp/http sources for install. I don't know if it's supposed to take that long to setup, but sometimes it just sits there doing stuff, and i get agrivated and keep hitting the x button. so, i think it might have something to do with that.

thnx