[Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

Mon May 21 19:56:43 CEST 2012

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 18:11 +0200, Robert Fox wrote:
+
+> The problem occurs under both KDE and Gnome 
+> 
+> Basically, the system seems to freeze up (mouse moves) but nothing else
+> - gkrellem freezes and no errors occur - it just seems to hang - but
+> magically wake up again after some time (many seconds at a time)
+
+Also check ~/.xsession_errors, and maybe try running without networking
+for a while, then without sound (e.g. in Sound Properties choose the
+profile "off" for each card, and then rmmod the modules).
+
+Another possibility is you have power saving enabled for the hard drive,
+and it's taking a while to wake up. If X or the window manager is partly
+swapped out then the kernel will need to wake up the disk to service the
+page fault, and in the mean-time X will likely be frozen.
+
+Also check whether caps lock, num lock lights work when it's frozen.
+
+I've actually been having something similar with magea 1 on my laptop
+and not yet tracked it down.
+
+Liam
+
+-- 
+Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
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