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Re: [Evolution] Re: [Galeon-user] Regular total lockups with 1.0.1 (and earlier)

Update (thanks to Christian Rose for pointing out to me how to find out)

VGA Controller: nVidia NV11
Audio Controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 07)

Could SB Live! be the common link amongst all people who have these
freezes?

-mike


On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 08:34, Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote:

This is scary - the EXACT same problem I reported on this very list not
7 days ago. My computer experiences random lockups.

Using :
  RH7.2 (never munged with the kernel), 
  Ximian 1.4 (from Red Carpet), 
  Galeon 0.12.8-1 
  Evolution 1.0. 

My hardware setup is:
  Pentium 4, 1.4g using standard motherboard
  384mb RDAM
  Not sure what graphics card actually, any easy way to find out?
  Ditto for sound card - any easy way to figure it out w/o ripping open
the machine?


A lot of people sent me helpful suggestions but none have really fixed
the problem yet, they include:
 - possible BadRam sectors - use memtest to test RAM, and BadRAM kernel
patch to avoid using those sectors
 - bad fonts can lockup an xserver 
 - another user who has seen it on two RH 7.2 boxes claimed it was the
kernel version (2.4.9-13)

Does this help anyone? Or are we all just shooting in the dark here?

-mike


On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 07:30, Rick Ziegler wrote:

Ditto for my father: completely stock + Ximian + all updates.

Asus K7M  - AMD-751 Chipset
AMD Athlon 500 (slot)
Matrox Marvel G400

I'm inclined to think it is something to do with some specific hardware
configurations.  There are obviously more people out there using RH 7.2
happily than there are experiencing these hard lockups.  

Although RH 7.2 seems to be one common denominator, it can't be the only
one. 

At this point this is off topic - anyone know what RedHat list is the
most appropriate?


On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 14:35, Luis Villa wrote:

Completely stock 7.2 + Ximian GNOME + RH updates. Kernel is
kernel-2.4.9-13, again from RH. Has locked up at least once a day I
bought the machine and installed 7.2.
Luis

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 14:35, Jason A. Pfeil wrote:

Please provide additional information about your setups.  Kernel version
(is it stock RH72?), any additional configs/packages you have installed
besides Ximian GNOME and the stock RH72 system.

Thanks!

--Jason

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 14:17, Luis Villa wrote:

I'm inclined to blame it on RH 7.2 itself; I've seen the same random
lockups all the time since I installed RH 7.2, and that sadly includes
times I'm sitting on console in bash with no X running. Literally doing
nothing but trying to tab-complete. So... I've got no clue, but because
I've seen it happen more than a couple time while on console without X
running, I really can't blame it on gnome or any packages thereof.
Luis 

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 14:16, Rick Ziegler wrote:

My father also experiences frequent lockups with RH 7.2, though he isn't
always using Galeon at the time.

Another RH 7.2 user blamed the same lockup on Evolution on the evolution
mailing list within the last week or two.

I'm inclined to believe there is something screwy with RH 7.2 and (all
of) your hardware configuration(s), or maybe the Ximian packages on
which Galeon and Evolution are built.  (Provided you are using Ximian
gnome).

Perhaps more detailed system information could help track this problem
down.

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 14:00, Victor Putz wrote:


First: I absolutely love Galeon; I had been wanting a "minimal browser"
for years, and have been so pleased with Galeon that I haven't used
anything else sense insalling it.

Second: I like it so much that I am still using it even though it is the
ONLY application I have ever found which will bring my Linux system to its
knees and require a reboot.

...and that's not so good.

Quite regularly, when browsing with Galeon, my system will simply freeze
and become completely unresponsive; no mouse movement, no keyboard motion.
It will ignore attempts to switch to different TTY console windows, will
shrug aside control-alt-delete, and even disregards attempts to telnet
from my wife's computer in the next room (even with X and the console
completely frozen, I've almost always been able to telnet in from next
door and shut down properly).

The only thing which recovers the system is the hardware reset button or a
power-down.  Luckily I'm running RH7.2 with ext3fs, so a reboot isn't very
traumatic, but it disturbs me quite a bit.

Any ideas on what the problem could be?  I'm using the Galeon 1.0.1 rpm
for RHL, the mozilla 0.9.6 packages, and the prebuilt 2.4.9-13 kernel rpm.
The system is quite solid otherwise and I can leave it running for days
until I surf the web.  Galeon options have Java/Flash off, Javascript
disabled, popups off.

Poor testing here, though--I have not spent much time trying to surf with
Mozilla only to see if the problem lays there.

Any help would be, well... helpful.

-->VPutz

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