Currently I’m experiencing a problem were, if I left my computer untouched for a few minutes it hangs. By hanging I mean no alt tabbing, desktop does not react to clicks, all plasmoids are freezed (wich is nice to see the time it got stuck :)), Ctrl+Alt+F1 gives me a login prompt but after username/password noting more happens, that is, it hangs there too.
I’m starting to suspect hardware problems because I don’t see anything out of the ordinary in the logs. But I don’t really know were to look.
I’ve suspected that my ATI was not reacting well to power management but I turned that off and it still hangs when left alone (the poor thing, who can blame it…). Can wireless problems hang the entire computer? Do you have a suggestion were I might look next to spot the cause?
(Meanwhile I’ll try to do a memtest and badblocks check but that takes for ever …)
memtest passed all tests and filesystem checking reported everything alright. Here is fschk output (just because I’ve saved it to a file and can easily past it :))
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done
/dev/sda7: Updating bad block inode.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda7: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
117316 inodes used (16.65%)
1165 non-contiguous inodes (1.0%)
# of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 8605/80/0
987683 blocks used (35.11%)
0 bad blocks
1 large file
99067 regular files
12522 directories
44 character device files
64 block device files
54 fifos
5570 links
5406 symbolic links (4877 fast symbolic links)
150 sockets
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122877 files
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done
/dev/sda8: Updating bad block inode.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda8: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
109374 inodes used (5.17%)
5306 non-contiguous inodes (4.9%)
# of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 5999/184/0
3616546 blocks used (85.68%)
0 bad blocks
1 large file
100426 regular files
8604 directories
0 character device files
0 block device files
0 fifos
0 links
209 symbolic links (51 fast symbolic links)
126 sockets
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109365 files