[ale] Strange hangs with Mandrake 9.2 & GNOME

[Dow Hurst]

maybe you can look for problems with the LAN card driver.  do you have a 
lot of collisions or does the output of ifconfig -a show normal 
interface values?  Do you have errors showing in the ifconfig output.  
Noapic and acpi=off probably won't help after re-reading your post since 
the error is periodic based on Net activity.  However, the periodic hang 
sounded just like the IDE errors on a Dell i8500 laptop before the 
kernel had IDE patches for a new IDE controller.  Maybe you've got a 
poor ethernet card driver?
Dow


Michael D. Hirsch wrote:

>On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:17 am, Dow Hurst wrote:
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>>You may have some IDE issues that log errors continuously.  Sound like
>>some hardware issue that the kernel doesn't like. 
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>I can't find any log messages about that, but I hadn't considered the IDE 
>system.  The board has SATA and regular IDE, but I'm using IDE.  I'll look 
>again.
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>>You might drop back
>>to the older system that worked or switch to Gentoo with a later
>>kernel.  Just an idea.  Oh, and on boot in your current system you
>>should try disabling ACPI or try noapic.  Either might help you.
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>I was thinking I'd try a reinstall, but disabling ACPI is a better first try.  
>I wish I knew how to trigger the problem--that would make it so much easier 
>to test.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michael
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>>Dow
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>>Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
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>>>You may have heard me mention that I have my wife using Linux, now.  She
>>>has a nice fast hyperthreading CPU, plenty of RAM, CDRW, DVD reader--in
>>>short, she should be a happy camper.
>>>
>>>I recently upgraded her to Mandrake 9.2 with the latest OpenOffice, GNOME,
>>>and Evolution and suddenly weird stuff is happening.  Her system will
>>>suddenly hang for a few seconds, then restart.  Internet activities (http
>>>and POP mail, for example) seem very slow.
>>>
>>>As she was complaining I started watching her machine from my laptop.  It
>>>was not returning pings very well--sometime not at all, and sometimes
>>>with 5 second delays.  I logged on to her machine and pinged the mail
>>>server--it was showing the same problems.  I could ping it fine from my
>>>laptop.
>>>
>>>Later I logged on to her system.  I was running top, then I started
>>>xosview which is a graphical system monitor.  xosview show 100% CPU
>>>usage, but top didn't show any process using much CPU.  This lasted about
>>>5 seconds, then stopped and I couldn't get it to recur over the next
>>>hour.
>>>
>>>Any clues or suggestions?  I'm running two other Mandrake installations
>>>without trouble, though they tend to be in KDE, not GNOME.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Michael
>>>
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