[Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

Liam R E Quin liam at holoweb.net
Mon May 21 19:56:43 CEST 2012


On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 18:11 +0200, Robert Fox wrote:

> The problem occurs under both KDE and Gnome 
> 
> Basically, the system seems to freeze up (mouse moves) but nothing else
> - gkrellem freezes and no errors occur - it just seems to hang - but
> magically wake up again after some time (many seconds at a time)

Also check ~/.xsession_errors, and maybe try running without networking
for a while, then without sound (e.g. in Sound Properties choose the
profile "off" for each card, and then rmmod the modules).

Another possibility is you have power saving enabled for the hard drive,
and it's taking a while to wake up. If X or the window manager is partly
swapped out then the kernel will need to wake up the disk to service the
page fault, and in the mean-time X will likely be frozen.

Also check whether caps lock, num lock lights work when it's frozen.

I've actually been having something similar with magea 1 on my laptop
and not yet tracked it down.

Liam

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