Randomly my desktop locks up. Mouse moves, and cursor still changes when moving over window borders. But nothing responses. I can do a Ctrl + Alt + F3 and do not get a terminal. I can still move my mouse but the only thing that brings me back is a reset.
Does anyone have any idea how I can trouble shoot what is causing this issue?
Thanks
Run ‘top’ in a terminal
Make sure you can see it, wait for the freeze and note what it reports.
Disable desktop effects if you have them on.
Is this a new install? Or did the problem suddenly start happening when it have behaved well before?
I’m asking, because I had a similar problem on my desktop (a Dell, with an Athlon processor). It randomly stopped responding. This happened from the beginning. I tried “nolapic” as a kernel option, and that fixed the problem.
Ok I have top up and running I am still waiting for it to freeze again. Am I looking for a process that is running hard?
The issue seems to be since install. I was running Ubuntu 10.4 as a MythTV server and never had my desktop lockup in more than two years. Even if I was recording a show, transcoding another and burning a CD. So this took my by surprise. Who knows maybe I have some conflicting software or something. I am new to OpenSuse. I really like how organized suse is and that if I use it in a commercial environment that I can get official support as needed.
openSUSE is supported by the community. You have the forums, mailing lists and IRC to connect with people who are not paid for it and are mainly other users like yourself. If you want more formal (paid) support, you need to look at the commercial versions of SUSE, SLES/SLED.
That is really what I mean. I may be wrong but I think that they are very similar and if you know OpenSuse then you will get around better in Suse if you ever need it.
I guess that brings about another question.
Besides OpenSuse being a test bed for Suse what other advantages do you get from having Suse vs OpenSuse?
On 02/11/2011 12:36 AM, ckm8871931 wrote:
> what other advantages do you get from having Suse vs OpenSuse?
long term support…the any particular openSUSE release is supported
18 months <http://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime>… while SLED goes on for
years…
but, if you like changing every 8 months to get the latest and
greatest you will love openSUSE…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
Looks like firefox was the guy. It was on top and had the highest numbers.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled and will see if this helps.
When you say 18 months of support is that how long they supply security patches?
Ok Scratch that …
Locked up again…I have tried the new test version which does not lock up as quick but locked up the same.
Here is what I get:
VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
787m 90m 34m s 1 2.3 0:36.57 firefox
146m 21m 9764 s 0 .5 0:42.93 Xorg
8668 114 788 R 0 0.0 0:02.51 top
12408 772 628 s 0 0.0 0:00.31 init
Everything else is blank as in 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.0 Name
Any Ideas?
Can you tell us about your graphics card and what drivers you have installed.
On 02/16/2011 05:06 AM, ckm8871931 wrote:
> When you say 18 months of support is that how long they supply security
> patches?
yes…and, how long “they” keep the repos on line, and keep the
documentation on line, and try to answer questions here, and . . .
btw: “they” are ‘we’, we the community of openSUSE (there is no lush
campus like headquarters where folks drive up in super expensive cars,
ride their skateboards to the office spa and have a fresh squeezed
no-pesticide orange juice with their ecological breakfast grains)
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
I have two GeForce GT 220 Card and I am running stock on the drivers I have not installed any specific drivers.
Are you are saying that the community has a organized governing body that has been setup by Novel and they “the community” decide when the Repos are taken off line?
I am not new to Linux and by far I do not think that this dristo is filed with people supporting it from a office other than there home or during there coffee break. “I know this is not supported by Novel!” That is why it is there test bed. I know that people here are taking there time out of there day to help.
That is why I am very grateful!!!
On 02/17/2011 05:06 AM, ckm8871931 wrote:
> Are you are saying that the community has a organized governing body
> that has been setup by Novel and they “the community” decide when the
> Repos are taken off line?
yes… <http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Project>
> I am not new to Linux and by far I do not think that this dristo is
> filed with people supporting it from a office other than there home or
> during there coffee break. “I know this is not supported by Novel!”
actually, it is supported by Novell, directly: they run the servers
this forum and the Wiki are on (as well as many others supporting the
cause…) and pay the electricity/upkeep/etc…and, the wages/benefits
of a bunch of developers in Germany and other places…
additionally there are volunteers doing stuff, around the world…
> That is why I am very grateful!!!
me too… 
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
So far so Good…I did have to do some working with configuration and disable one monitor.,I think the conflict is that not all are the same two lcd and one crt thus causing a conflict. I also had an issue with the Nvidia Drivers not liking Xen Kernel. Removed and as I had already decided that I am not using it on this machine anyway due to Asus’s lacking iommu support on my board even in the most basic manner. It is sad really that such a pricy Motherboard has no support. Anyway I will keep this posted on results I am still running top and monitoring the system for issues.
OK I would call this one salved!!! I have had no more Lockups sence updtaing my nvidia Drivers.
We are truly happy for you.
Thanks for letting us know