Open Suse 11.2 is unstable for me

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#1

Hello. I’ve been searching for a stable distro for my computer without any luck. I’ve tried Debian, Ubuntu, and Suse.

My machine is a pc with 2GHz Processor and 30GB of hard drive. My graphics are Intel 82845G/GL (Brookdale)

What begins to happen after a few hours is that the machine will randomly freeze up. By that I mean that everything that can be “clicked” on on the screen is unresponsive – I can move my mouse around but clicking doesn’t do anything. In addition, my keyboard is froze so nothing I type works. Also, there is no way to bring up another terminal (ALT-F2 does nothing)

The only thing that unfreezes the computer and reboots it is Alt-SysRq-r-s-e-i-u-b.

take care.

#2

It could be the screen is locked. Does this thing happen when your machine is idle for a few hours? If it is it locks automatically which you can modify the settings depending on what DE you are using. Can you please supply more information about your openSUSE installation, like are you using gnome or kde. Were the desktop effects enabled. Supplying more informations in your post can help the experts here to help you out.

#3

Hello.

I have a 6-year old Gateway PC with an Intel 2GHZ processor, 30GB of hard drive space, and an integrated Intel 82845G/GL Processor
I’m running a dual-boot with Suse and WindowsXP

After I have installed the system for awhile, I get random “freezes” of my system. By this I mean that the mouse moves but nothing I click on does anything. Also, I can’t type or open up a terminal. In fact, the only way out of it is to hit ALT-SysRq-r-s-e-i-u-b

The last time it froze I had 7 tabs internet tabs open: 5 suse/linux websites, 1 rivals.com website, and 1 hotmail (no significant video or audio streaming was going on)

I managed to have the terminal open before it happened this time, with the command “top” running. Here is what it froze to:

Hi. Here’s some information I gathered from the top command upon my last freeze-up:

top - 21:12:55 up 3:26 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.21, 0.26
tasks: 113 total, 3 running, 110 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
cpu(s): 2.3% us, 3.3% sy, 0.0% mi, 94.4% id, 0.0% wa,0.0% hi, 0.0% si, 0.0% st
mem: 1289484k total, 877388k used, 412096k free, 50900k buffers
swap: 2931852k total, 0k used, 2931852k free, 613692k cached

pid…user.pr…ni…virt…res…shr.s.%cpu.%mem.time+.command
7377 nick 20 0 98732 18m 12m R 2.3 1.4 1:01.50 npviewer.bin
7250 nick 20 0 242m 98m 23m R 1.7 7.8 .9:20.88 …firefox
3338 nick 20 0 2336 1020 776 S 0.7 0.1 …1:06.99 …top
7306 nick 20 0 2336 1016 768 R 0.7 0.1 …0:20.55 …top
0004 root 15 -5 0000 0000 0000 S 0.3 0.0 …0:02.93 ksoftirqd/0
0001 root 20 0 1940 0660 572 S 0.0 0.1 …0:01.14 …init
0002 root 15 -5 0000 0000 0000 S 0.0 0.0 …0:00.00 kthreadd
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Two things stand out to me: the 98732 number under VIRT for PID 7377, and PID4 whose command is “ksoftirqd/0”

hopefully this information is helpful.

take care.

#4

Go to /var/log

I am interested in Xorg.0.log

Also please run

lspci

as root.

We may need to look at other messages/logs later, but for now, that’s a good start.

#5

On 12/23/2009 06:46 PM, joerione wrote:
>
> It could be the screen is locked. Does this thing happen when your
> machine is idle for a few hours? If it is it locks automatically which
> you can modify the settings depending on what DE you are using. Can you
> please supply more information about your openSUSE installation, like
> are you using gnome or kde. Were the desktop effects enabled. Supplying
> more informations in your post can help the experts here to help you
> out.

It also could be a memory problem. Run memtest86+ for at least 12 hours to check
RAM.