SUSE 10.3 freezes

riba43 · 10-18-2007, 12:49 PM

Hi,

Last few days I have been confronted with a weird behavior of my SUSE 10.3 system. Several time a day all of the sudden it freezes. Then I have to reboot and it goes on for some time. I do not know what the reason is. There were several automatic updates last days ??

auxsvr · 10-18-2007, 02:12 PM

Does the keyboard work then? The mouse? The disks? Do any related messages appear in the system log (/var/log/messages)?

riba43 · 10-18-2007, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by auxsvr

Does the keyboard work then? The mouse? The disks? Do any related messages appear in the system log (/var/log/messages)?

No, nothing works. I cant do anything but to press restart button.

auxsvr · 10-19-2007, 07:44 AM

Try disabling any compiz 3D effects. What graphics card do you use? Does the system log (/var/log/messages) contain anything related right before the crash? Do any LEDs on the keyboard blink?

riba43 · 10-19-2007, 07:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by auxsvr

Try disabling any compiz 3D effects. What graphics card do you use? Does the system log (/var/log/messages) contain anything related right before the crash? Do any LEDs on the keyboard blink?

Hi,

My graphic card is Radeon 9600 and Yes, 3D is enabled. In /var/log/message there is nothing. No LED is blinking, mouse cursor stops , gkrellm is like a photo - nothing is moving. I will follow your advice and will disable 3D. Will report back if there will be any improvement.

Thanks for your help.

Shadoglare · 10-19-2007, 01:16 PM

I was having a similar problem with 10.2 and an Nvidia graphics card - the driver that came default was glitchy, and my system would lock hardcore within five minutes (usually within a minute or two) of booting, non-fail.

I was able to correct this by downloading a driver direct from Nvidia - there may be a similar option from ATI.

colinlc · 11-05-2007, 04:51 PM

Hi, there is another post, on page one, about system freezes. I am having the same problem. Mine is not a 3D card (SuSE automatically disabled 3D software). Colin

riba43 · 11-09-2007, 04:25 AM

trying all advises I found here and on the web, but all in vain. My comp freezes randomly-when I am surfing the web or just doing nothing. I disabled ACPI in my bios but only to stop booting into SUSE. Yes, it stops right before entering into terminal window. Has somebody find a real working solution for that or is this the bug in suse 10.3??

auxsvr · 11-11-2007, 09:03 AM

Check your memory with memtest and try a liveCD to see whether the cause is a hardware problem. If it isn't, file a bug report at novell bugzilla.

colinlc · 11-12-2007, 04:42 AM

Hi riba43. I gave up. I put APM back to "enabled" and PNP Aware (Plug and Play) to "no" and installed 10.3 as "new" over top of my old system and haven't had a crash since. My conclusion is that the "upgrade" failed to configure properly. Colin