strange lockups...
I am running Mandrake 9.1 (which now has been slowly upgraded to a cooker devel version) on a Acer Travelmate 800 lci.
My problem is that during first day of my installation time to time i experience Lock ups in my X session...Lock ups occure with no warning or error output...and my mouse and system seems to keep on working. More specific, my X Session freezes (everthing including animations + keyboard stop responding) but my mouse keeps on working. The only way to deal with the lock up is to power off my laptop. When i reboot after the annoying checking when i log and check the logs i find nada...the only message appended in there is that my system was shutted down (like it was shutted down properly) but that ain't the case since i have to power off the laptop (maybe from the initial power off button touch i get this log entry). Anyone experiencing the same? I though that this might be co-related with Java but i am unable to reproduce the lockup, another small hint i have is that this might be related with the ATI Mobillity card my laptop has...anyone else experiencing the same symptoms? I though in the beggining that this might be related to apm...so apm is gone...but Lockups still exist... |
Give this a try, when it happens close the notebook for about 5 secs and reopen and see iff it returns. Best guesses here are the kernel and or hotplug ( relates to usb mostly ).
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Ok more on this...i just had my X session again Freezing some minutes ago...rebooted and here is the output of the logfiles:
/var/log/messages -> Code:
Jan 28 14:29:59 pestilence shutdown: shutting down for system halt Next: /var/log/acpid -> Code:
[Wed Jan 28 14:31:43 2004] executing action "/sbin/poweroff" As you can see from my logs my system continues working as nothing ever happened...except that my screen is frozen and my keyboard....mouse keeps on working (i can move it around...but i can't click offcourse)...and the only way to handle this situation is by hard reboot...i can't aquire a console by swicthing from X...and i can't kill the X session...i just only can reboot... Any ideas? P.S WHEN THE LOCK UP OCCURS I CAN HEAR MY FAN STARTING AS SOMETHING HEAVY IS RUNNING ON THE SYSTEM, THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE LOCK UP DOES NOT OCCURE IF I FIRE AN APPLICATION OR A DEVICE IT JUST FREEZES SUDDENLY WITHOUT ANY SYMPTOMS... ATI PROBLEMS? |
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