Live CD lockup/freeze, 11.2

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#1

Hey all,

I recently installed 11.2 to replace 10.3 but keeping the /home partition. I had some random occasional freezes, so I thought the installation must have messed up. (While finishing, the installation process had totally locked up and I had to reboot.) So I decided now that I would try reinstalling.

However, I booted from the live CD and, after a few minutes of light use browsing through hard drives, the system froze solid (no ctrl+alt+F1 or ctrl+alt+backspace, but I can move the mouse), just like the installed version had.

Windows XP home is running fine on that system, and I ran prime95 for a few hours today to test stability without any errors. Last week I ran memtest86 for a few hours without any errors. However, this is a different motherboard from what I had been using with openSUSE 10.3, so I can’t assume that 10.3 wouldn’t have trouble too.

Is there a way I can tell what’s going on from the live CD, or do I need to install and examine logs?

Thanks!

eMachines T2885
Intel Celeron 2.8GHz
1GB (512MB x 2) DDR RAM
Intel i845 chipset/graphics

#2

Are we to understand from this that you didn’t actually install, you were just running from the live CD?

#3

Thanks for your reply.

I installed it, and it was freezing routinely. So I just ran the live CD for a while, and it was still freezing, so I thought it was something serious and posted here. But last night I installed it again and so far it hasn’t froze. :stuck_out_tongue: Go figure.

Sorry for posting (apparently) unnecessarily! I guess I’ll come back if it starts freezing again…

#4

I’ve got the same issue with my OpenSUSE 11.2 and i845 chipset. It is the bug in intel video driver and here is bug-report on freedesktop.org.

I’d install 11.1 on other partition and got same freezing. So the latest OpenSUSE works fine with my chipset was 11.0. And I didn’t find neither workaround nor way to install old intel video driver on OpenSUSE 11.2.:frowning: