Suse 11.4 locks up continuously!!

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First: I am running 11.3 on the same machine ie; MB Asroc 890GX, CPU amd 1090t x6 cores, 16 gig mem. Nvidia Geforce 9500 GT video. 11.3 runs flawlessly. I installed 11.4 on another hard disk and ran it on the very same machine, and it locks up continually, it might run for a few hrs. or a day or so before locking up. nothing works not the mouse nor the keyboard. my instincts tell me that it is the video? the driver on the 11.3 sys is Nvidia 256.53, on 11.4 it was 257.17? on Nvidia’s web site they list the latest stable version as 258. etc. Through Yast i selected to update Nvidia drivers and it comes back with the same 257 drivers. Question; might something else be causing the problem and if so WHAT! or is it the video and what would it take to fix it? I do not have 11.4 installed as of now took it off to install and check out another system. However, I would like to reinstall and get it stable on my system so I can move up from 11.3 which is (stable and smooth system). Help!:’(

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On 2011-11-12 03:36, jonesrj wrote:
> Question; might something else be causing the problem and if
> so WHAT! or is it the video and what would it take to fix it? I do
> not have 11.4 installed as of now took it off to install and check out
> another system.

So, you probably did not install all the patches.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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And just what patches are you talking about?

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I guess he means. Did you fully update the install

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Oh yes! I started updating immediately and continuously for a couple of months at least.

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You’d have to install the nvidia driver manually to test the very latest
Take a look here
Installing the nVIDIA Video Driver the Hard Way - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

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You should also try disabling desktop effects and or remove the nvidia driver and just try running the kernel driver (nouveau)

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Could you give us some information also on the desktop you are using please? KDE or Gnome, and what version. Did you try to start the machine in “failsafe mode” (from Grub, not the one of KDE Plasma)? Does the machine locks then? Did you try to do a session in command line mode (to see weather the machine locks up also without X and desktop environment. Sometimes bad luck hits. I would not exclude a RAM problem with the very same machine. Sometimes, somewhere, somehow a module fails. When it “decided” to do so, it may have been after you did install the 11.4 version. So I would suggest also to do a check on the RAM of your machine (you do this, as you probably already know, with the original install DVD you created. So you can exclude this issue.
It could also be temperature. I had this on one machine getting (for reasons I ignore) very hot. So you might launch a plasmoid to monitor the temperature when it locks.
A last thing, sometimes ACPI regulations can give you this result. There was a change in how the kernel does handle the energy-saving modes of the CPUs. This could be the problem (especially temperature), because 11.3 uses the 2.6.34 where the problem did not exist, 11.4 has 2.6.37 where the problem does exist. In this case you should install 12.1 as soon as it comes out because it runs the 3.1 kernel where the problems has been worked around.

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I don’t have the system installed at this time. I was using KDE. Funny you should mention Temp. I did notice that my machine seemed hotter when this happened. I had a temp monitoring plasmoid running but generally it locked when the screen saver was on and couldn’t read it and at other times did not note what the temp was when it froze. I see that 12.1 RC is available, maybe I’ll download and install that? any way thanks for the thought.

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Am 12.11.2011 15:46, schrieb jonesrj:

> I see
> that 12.1 RC is available, maybe I’ll download and install that? any
> way thanks for the thought.
>
Wait a few days then the official 12.1 will be released. (Only 4 days to
go http://www.opensuse.org/en/)

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PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.3 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram

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I have a dual boot system with Win XP and OpenSuse 11.4. I also have problems with the computer locking up when is is left unattended for a few minutes. If you move the mouse immediately after the screen goes black, you can usually get it to snap back to life. Let it go for 5 or 10 min and it shuts down. You have to re-boot again. I am running Gnome and I tried uninstalling the screen saver. Still does it. By-the-way, when I had 11.2 everything worked fine. If I run OpenSuse 11.4 without the other work computer with XP, the Linux machine doesn’t shut down. But when both computers run, the Linux machine shut down by it self. It is like it goes into a deep sleep. I can’t see the screen and the lights on is are not flashing. The fix I have come up with is to put the Linux machine into suspend mode when I switch the shared screen to the windows machine. When I want to go back to the Linux machine, I switch the screen to it and press the power button on the Linux machine. There is a 10 second or so delay and it comes back to life again, all the time. I hope they come out with a new version 11.5, that fixes this problem.

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The “new version” is out since some month. It is 12.1. The numbering can be somewhat confusing sorry. There have been:

  • 11.0 (there will be no 0 version any more from 11.4 onwards)
  • 11.1
  • 11.2
  • 11.3
  • 11.4
  • 12.1

There is no intermediate numbering 12.0. So the version you wish to see is already out there, please note that you will get better help if you are specific on the machine locking.

  • what graphics card
  • what mainboard, what BIOS and what version
  • what graphics-card driver?
  • whatever else is useful e.g. 32 or 64 bit? Exact description of the error, post the log files etc.

Cheers.

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On 2012-02-14 17:56, deanomite wrote:
> The fix I have come up with is to put the Linux
> machine into suspend mode when I switch the shared screen to the windows
> machine.

Please clarify this, the setup you are using is not normal. How do you
share the same display between two different computers? If it is not that,
please clarify.

> hope they come out with a new version 11.5, that fixes this problem.

There will never be a 11.5, the next version to 11.4 is 12.1.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)