[ale] Strange hangs with Mandrake 9.2 & GNOME

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:15 pm, Dow Hurst wrote:
> 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?

I'll look for that.  I don't recall any such problems before upgrading to 9.1 
from 9.1.  I deliberately picked a supported card, but maybe something 
changed.

I didn't look at the values coming from ifconfig.  I'll try that tonight.

Thanks,

Michael

> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> >On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:17 am, Dow Hurst wrote:
> >>You may have some IDE issues that log errors continuously.  Sound like
> >>some hardware issue that the kernel doesn't like.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >>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.
> >
> >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
> >
> >>Dow
> >>
> >>Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> >>>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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