on my gateway MX7120 (amd 64 athlon cpu), my desktop locks up hard maybe once or twice a day -- the only thing still functional is the cursor, which has the "I" format. that's it -- i can move the cursor around via the USB mouse but nothing else -- no switching virtual desktops, no activating windows, no menu selections, no virtual consoles, no Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to kill my X session, nothing. my only option is a hard power down and reboot.
thoughts? i'd bugzilla this but i have no idea what i'd be bugzilla'ing.
rday --
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
on my gateway MX7120 (amd 64 athlon cpu), my desktop locks up hard maybe once or twice a day -- the only thing still functional is the cursor, which has the "I" format. that's it -- i can move the cursor around via the USB mouse but nothing else -- no switching virtual desktops, no activating windows, no menu selections, no virtual consoles, no Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to kill my X session, nothing. my only option is a hard power down and reboot.
thoughts? i'd bugzilla this but i have no idea what i'd be bugzilla'ing.
rday
======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry.
http://crashcourse.ca http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================
The kernel, probably.
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
on my gateway MX7120 (amd 64 athlon cpu), my desktop locks up hard maybe once or twice a day -- the only thing still functional is the cursor, which has the "I" format. that's it -- i can move the cursor around via the USB mouse but nothing else -- no switching virtual desktops, no activating windows, no menu selections, no virtual consoles, no Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to kill my X session, nothing. my only option is a hard power down and reboot.
thoughts? i'd bugzilla this but i have no idea what i'd be bugzilla'ing.
rday
see if this is relevant - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473689
2009/4/8 shmuel siegel fedora@shmuelhome.mine.nu:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
on my gateway MX7120 (amd 64 athlon cpu), my desktop locks up hard maybe once or twice a day -- the only thing still functional is the cursor, which has the "I" format. that's it -- i can move the cursor around via the USB mouse but nothing else -- no switching virtual desktops, no activating windows, no menu selections, no virtual consoles, no Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to kill my X session, nothing. my only option is a hard power down and reboot.
thoughts? i'd bugzilla this but i have no idea what i'd be bugzilla'ing.
rday
see if this is relevant - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473689
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I think I have the same problem but I cannot give you more information. the lockups happen randomly (2 times for less than 1 hour and 0 in the last 5 weeks)
@ robert:
can you post your smolt profile? mine: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_1ea45a8d-e70f-424f-aeab-c04eaec10b6f
I think (in my case) it has something to do with cpufreq and the power-management. The only way to force reproduce this is (under windows) when i change the cpu-multi before changing the voltage. the lockup is exactly the same in linux (comparing the results of what's shown on the screen which is the only thing I can see) but I cannot reproduce it under linux . the kernel doesn't show any panics when looking in the messages after the hard-reset. the same for the xorg.0.log.old
Both problems could be totaly different, though.
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:09 +0100, Joshua C. wrote:
2009/4/8 shmuel siegel fedora@shmuelhome.mine.nu:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
on my gateway MX7120 (amd 64 athlon cpu), my desktop locks up hard maybe once or twice a day -- the only thing still functional is the cursor, which has the "I" format. that's it -- i can move the cursor around via the USB mouse but nothing else -- no switching virtual desktops, no activating windows, no menu selections, no virtual consoles, no Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to kill my X session, nothing. my only option is a hard power down and reboot.
thoughts? i'd bugzilla this but i have no idea what i'd be bugzilla'ing.
rday
see if this is relevant - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473689
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I think I have the same problem but I cannot give you more information. the lockups happen randomly (2 times for less than 1 hour and 0 in the last 5 weeks)
@ robert:
can you post your smolt profile? mine: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_1ea45a8d-e70f-424f-aeab-c04eaec10b6f
I think (in my case) it has something to do with cpufreq and the power-management. The only way to force reproduce this is (under windows) when i change the cpu-multi before changing the voltage. the lockup is exactly the same in linux (comparing the results of what's shown on the screen which is the only thing I can see) but I cannot reproduce it under linux . the kernel doesn't show any panics when looking in the messages after the hard-reset. the same for the xorg.0.log.old
Both problems could be totaly different, though.
I have the same problem with my Sony and filed this report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494435
-Kirk
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 06:30 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
on my gateway MX7120 (amd 64 athlon cpu), my desktop locks up hard maybe once or twice a day -- the only thing still functional is the cursor, which has the "I" format. that's it -- i can move the cursor around via the USB mouse but nothing else -- no switching virtual desktops, no activating windows, no menu selections, no virtual consoles, no Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to kill my X session, nothing. my only option is a hard power down and reboot.
thoughts? i'd bugzilla this but i have no idea what i'd be bugzilla'ing.
Are sysrq [1] keys responsive when the system locks up? You might be able to increase the sysrq logging (sysrq-9) then inspect what the kernel is doing at the time of the lock up (see sysrq-h for help).
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq
Thanks, James
James Laska wrote:
Are sysrq [1] keys responsive when the system locks up? You might be able to increase the sysrq logging (sysrq-9) then inspect what the kernel is doing at the time of the lock up (see sysrq-h for help).
Note that SysRq is disabled by default in Fedora, it has to be enabled explicitly as described in the wiki page linked above.
Kevin Kofler