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Old 06-03-2004, 04:10 PM   #1
fabre
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Random freeze


I get random system freeze with mdk 10.0 offical for no apparent reasons, it froze once at boot while loading, sometime after 5 minutes sometimes after 3hours.

Each time it happens I have to manually reboot the system

What could cause this? and is there any cure?

/Edit

Don't now if it is related but at the bootloader I didn't select
Enable ACPI
Force no APIC
Force no Local APIC

Last edited by fabre; 06-03-2004 at 04:20 PM.
 
Old 06-03-2004, 04:22 PM   #2
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ummm......lot's of things could cause that. kernel panic, a renegade app, xfree86 is borked in some way. 2 things............... do you have nvidia drivers installed? if so, random freezes are known to happen, but there's an easy fix by adding an option to xf86config-4. if that don't apply, then have a look at /var/log, mainly the followoing logs............. xfree86, syslog, user. if you need the nvidia fix, let me know, i'll help ya. if something looks fishy in the logs & you're not sure, post it & i'll try to help ya.

EDIT: i just read your edit. disable acpi in mcc->system->services from loading at boot. then, edit lilo.conf. look for where ever it says acpi= & make it say acpi=off. don't forget to run lilo -v in terminal as root, then reboot.

otis

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Old 06-03-2004, 04:45 PM   #3
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I do have a nvidia nforce 2 but the the driver should be ATI

Error wise I spotted this in the xfree86.0.log, I am struggling to get the ATI driver to work atm (see the nforce 2 thread)

(WW) fglrx(0): Cannot read colourmap from VGA. Will restore with default
(II) fglrx(0): UMM area: 0xd8700000 (size=0x07900000)
(II) fglrx(0): driver needs XFree86 version: 4.3.x
(II) fglrx(0): detected XFree86 version: 4.3.0
(II) Loading extension ATIFGLRXDRI
(II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed!
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xd8000000 FBMappedSize: 0x08000000
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1280,8191)
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1280,1024) (front color buffer - assumption)
(==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled
(==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1024)
(II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7163
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
Solid Horizontal and Vertical Lines
Offscreen Pixmaps
Setting up tile and stipple cache:
32 128x128 slots
32 256x256 slots
16 512x512 slots
(II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering disabled
(II) Loading extension FGLRXEXTENSION
(II) Loading extension ATITVOUT

In the syslog

No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.

Jun 2 08:19:13 fwin kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jun 2 08:19:13 fwin kernel: NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0
Jun 2 08:19:13 fwin kernel: NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
Jun 2 08:19:13 fwin kernel: NFORCE2: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jun 2 08:19:13 fwin kernel: NFORCE2: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
Jun 2 08:19:13 fwin kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jun 2 08:19:13 fwin kernel: NFORCE2: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
Jun 2 08:19:13 fwin kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
Jun 2 08:19:13 fwin kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA

Jun 3 14:03:11 fwin devfsd[153]: error calling: "unlink" in "GLOBAL"

didn't spot anything fishy in the user.log but again I only been using mdk for 48h
 
Old 06-03-2004, 04:51 PM   #4
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ACPI don't show up Service

here is my lilo.conf

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=menu
default="windows"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda8
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hda8
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount acpi=ht"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk
label="263-7"
root=/dev/hda8
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk.img
append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hda8
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe acpi=ht devfs=nomount"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe
 
Old 06-03-2004, 05:02 PM   #5
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Here is my theory and possibly solution... checkit:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...130#post971130
 
Old 06-04-2004, 03:49 AM   #6
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if you don't have the problem solved yet & before i offer a suggestion, could you please post your XF86Config-4 file? (it's in /etc/x11)

otis
 
Old 06-04-2004, 11:45 PM   #7
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I just enabled
Force no APIC
Force no Local APIC

and didn't had a single crash since

Last edited by fabre; 06-04-2004 at 11:47 PM.
 
  


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