I am getting exasperated with Mandriva 2007.0. I guess I am spoiled by the stability of the old Mandrake 10.1. Anyway, when I have a Konsole window open, it is only a matter of time before the system freezes. The video still works but there is no cursor and nothing can control the screen. Remote access will not work either. I can only assume there was some kind of runaway process or a system freeze (as opposed to a crash that generates some kind of report). Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks.

Sorry, not here. Mandy 2007.0 works well, and my test installation of 2007.1 is good too.

Is this a newer computer or a vintage machine? I have a friend who had a machine with a 350Mhz. CPU, a video card with 4MB video RAM, and 128MB SDRAM. He complained about the system 'locking up' intermittently, and sometimes 'freezing' so he had to reset the computer. We added 128MB SDRAM and replaced the video card with another old card I had here (16MB video RAM). His system runs faster now, and no 'lockups' or 'freezes'. He can not use the 3D Desktop graphical features, but being able to use a modern Linux distribution which is still being supported rather than Windows98 has more advantages than I can enumerate here.

It has been a while since I set the system up for him. I can not remember if the installer selected the legacy kernel or if I had to do it.

If this is a vintage computer, use the package manager to see which kernel package you are running. If it does not have legacy in the package name, install the latest kernel with legacy in the name, and try it to see if it helps.

If this is not a legacy machine, Mandy includes a few system monitoring packages, Ksysguard for KDE and Gnome System Monitor for Gnome. either one will show you memory and CPU load. Perhaps that will give you a clue as to what is happening.

HTH,

Thanks for the reply. This is not a new machine but it is not that old. I have a 1.25GHZ Athalon processor with 1.5GB memory.

I use an AMD Athalon XP 1800+ with .5GB RAM here, so I do not think I'd call that a 'vintage' machine either. How much video RAM? Also, have you tried running a system monitor yet? You could also install a SMART monitor software package to watch the condition of the HDD('s) in the event there is impending trouble there (ya' never know ...).

Thanks for the reply. The AGP card has 128M on it. Haven't set up any monitoring on it yet as I am still configuring.

Mandy 2007 would freeze after a full update on my Dell XPS Gen 2 laptop with above average hardware. I also had an image on the data partition of the fresh install, I would wipe the partition with zeros, make a new partition and load the image in about 15 minutes. Because I had set rpmdrake to keep all downloaded packages, all the updates were in my data partition also. I would re-install all the updates on the new copy in a flash and it would freeze again. Three times in a row, even screwed up Windows some how as this is a dual boot. I could not figure out how it screwed up Windows as my boot manager has them completely hidden from each other, except through the shared NTFS data partition.
Anyway, I got tired and came home to my dial-up internet and re-built Windows because even it's image was not working properly, re-loaded the image of Mandriva. But this time I installed the nvidia drivers for my graphics card before doing the updates. That fixed it, no more problems on either side.