just like the title says. it freezes at random. usualy within 5 to 10 minutes. I’m stuck having to hit the reset button. I’m not doing anything special. One time it happened while I was copying files off an NTFS partition. Another was while it was idle.
I tried both KDE 4 and 3.5 , no difference. I have formatted and reinstalled several times, and tried with and without any updates.
My system specs are
Intel Core2 Duo 2.13GHz
2GB 533MHz DDR2 RAM
ATI Radeon x1900gt
MSI P965E NEO motherboard
Same problem here,
Going back to the 10.3 right now
Search this forum for issues with ReiserFS & beagle (if you are using GNOME)
Could be you have to set some options in your fstab and uninstall beagle.
Good luck!
Wj
Need a bit more information for anyone to really be able to help. Have you tried running GNOME as your windows manager and see if it has the same error?
Can you post your dmesg and /var/log/messages possibly your /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Some basic troubleshooting would be to switch the box into runlevel 3. (when you log in open a konsole terminal, switch to root and type: init 3). This will knock down the graphics and just leave you with terminal access. Log in and see if the box repeats the lock up just running.
Did you use ext3 filesystem type?
I had a similar issue with 10.3 not so long back, turned out the cpu cooler was not doing so well, whacked in an extra fan and now solid as a rock
not sure if this will help, just my 2c
Definately had this problem with Beagle [KDE 3 & 4] on ReiserFS. Removed Beagle, fixed the problem.
kde4 and gnome freeze on me as well, worst still, after reboot, within 10 minutes, freeze again. Not doing anything special, as far as i can recall, the running apps were firefox, thunderbird, openoffice, in total less than 8 open windows.
My system specs are
Dell XPS m1330
Intel Core2 Duo 2.0 GHz
4GB DDR2 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
ext3 file system
use advanced search to peek at all with freeze or lock-up in subject
line (search all the openSuSE web forums with one click)…
if you do that i think you will find that some folks seem to avoid the
11.0 freezes by:
removing or disabling beagle
replacing reiserfs (though it is said the newest kernel is patched)
NOT running firefox (using konqueror/opera instead)
one person (at least) started avoiding running thunderbird
suspecting and fixing excess heat and/or insufficient power supply
capacity…
and, some say that their 11.0 runs smoothly, right out of the box…
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
Just wondering,why people still use reserfs??!!It has major drawbacks against ext3 not to mention xfs!!!
For desktop systems (and even some types of servers) reiserfs still does a good job. Compared to ext3, which is very robust, the speed reiserfs offers can outweigh the risks involved. Also many people have had no real issues using reiserfs.
The xfs filesystem is becoming popular, one thing though is that many partitioning and recovery tools can’t handle the format fully (ext and reiser are/where the most commonly used and are well supported) and like reiserfs, xfs has had some stability issues as well. I think the biggest one was in combination with LVM. but not sure about that, that’s what I’ve heard about it.
I have been using xfs the last couple of moths to have a test and see if it will become my filesystem of choice. So far it’s running smoothly and others speak highly of it. 
Compiz is also a source of lock-ups. buggy openGL calls mixed with less than perfect graphics drivers is a recipe for a deep freeze.
Window candy that generates a preview of a web browser rendered mostly by java or javascript like a remote desktop or yahoo mail also seems to be something of a problem.
YMMV.
Using xfs as well and i find it ideal for a home user dealing with large files like movies,music files etc…
As a side note it would be a bit risky to use xfs without a ups or a battery backup.I have xfs only on laptop and will have on desktop only when i buy a ups.Other than that i find xfs much much better, for my everyday use of pc, than ext3 and reiserfs
openSUSE is a community distro, designed for testing like Fedora. I really hope they consider adding support for Reiser4 and ext4.
One thing interesting I found…if I compile my own kernel (and the only thing I change from a “make cloneconfig” is telling it I have an amd 64 processor and want a low latency dekstop with 1000hz clock…I get the random freezes…if I upgrade to the recently released kernel even without compiling…I get the random freezes…if I revert to the kernel that comes with opensuse 11…no freezes. Any thoughts?
Hmmm, indeed interesting…
See my post here on Nvidia forums: NVIDIA Forums -> Total system freeze with 3D / opengl
It’s a combination of kernel-version and driver (and hardware) that causes the problems. But what exactly is going on here, I have no idea 
I hope that I will get an answer on the Nvidia forum soon.
p.s.: when you search on the Nvidia forum (Geforce-drivers) for “freeze” you will find out that there are a lot more people with the same problem.
How about some ‘uname -a’ outputs for those, so we can be sure what you’re claiming?
[Also, all those tests were with the SAME level of graphics-driver, right? which-driver?]
The openSUSE kernel carries the core kernel patches needed to work with reiser4. I try to keep the reiser4 module updated in the opensuse build service (project drivers:filesystems, package reiser4-kmp). The userspace tools already ship with openSUSE. As for ext4, the kernel module is part of the mainline kernel and is enabled in our configuration as a module.
Support for ext4 is expected in YaST once it stabilizes, but reiser4 support will not be forthcoming due to its lack of acceptance upstream.
I had the same problem with SuSE 10.2.
The solution I found was to add a command to the command line at the bootloader screen (ie where SuSE starts up and presents you with the option to boot SuSE normally or to boot in safe mode).
Try adding the command: noapic
It worked for me.
Regards,
Mark
My OpenSuSE 11.1 desktop crashed all the time. I tried everything as well (different nvidia drivers, removing beagle & firefox), including all tips in this thread. Not using ReiserFS.
Then Alexis (darktears) suggested I downgrade to the 2.6.27-4 kernel (11.1 uses 2.6.27-7 by default).
All problem gone! 
I searched for the packages on OpenSuSE’s package search, under OpenSuSE Factory.
My OpenSuSE 11.1 desktop crashed all the time. I tried everything as
well (different nvidia drivers, removing beagle & firefox), including
all tips in this thread. Not using ReiserFS.
Then Alexis (darktears) suggested I downgrade to the 2.6.27-4 kernel
(11.1 uses 2.6.27-7 by default).
All problem gone! I searched for the packages on OpenSuSE’s package
search, under OpenSuSE Factory.
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