Messages in this thread | | | From | "Nicholas R LeRoy" <> | Date | Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:19:55 -0500 | Subject | Semi-random 2.2.x hangs |
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Hello, all...
I've been experiencing semi-random 2.2.x hangs for quite some time now, and have been unable to resolve the situation, so I thought I'd ask for some help..
I'm running SUSE 6.1: I've tried the default 2.2.7 kernel, 2.2.10, 2.2.10-ac12, 2.2.11-pre2, and I'm testing 2.2.11-pre4 at home right now. -pre4 has hung on me yet (just built it this morning before work), but I suspect that it will. All hangs exibit the following behaviour which has me stumped. During 'normal' use, they behave wonderfully. When I leave X idle, and xscreensaver kicks in, however, is when I experience the hang. Usually within several hours of being idle, sometimes up to several days. Every time that I've been able to trap it, the screen hack running 'halo -root'. I have reduced my hack set down to a small set so that I can reproduce it more readily, but it's still a somewhat wait-and-see process...
When it hangs, it hangs tight. ALT-SysReq-xxx do nothing, caps lock & num-lock are dead, etc. The built it screen-blanking has been kicked in, and I can't un-blank, so I don't know for certain that there's nothing on the screen. I can't find a way to disable this behaviour easily... Is there way to disable the screen blanking, so that I can see if there's an oops report?
The same is stable as hell running RedHat 4.2 / 2.0.36, so I really don't think that its a HW problem.
Yeah, I know that I could disable the problematic screen hack, but getting the kernel fixed is the right thing to do. How can I help in this endeavor? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Even a RTFM would be great if you can point me at an FM that I haven't already RTFM'ed.
Thanks in advance
- Nick
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