Relix3000 Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Hello. I am having a problem with Mandrake 10.1, I dont now if its the X Server or the actual kernel. Sometimes, randomly every 10 minutes or even 15 hours, Mandrake totally freezes. Numlock wont respond, CTRL+Alt+F5 wont work either. Simply, nothing works except the mouse which I can still move, but thats the only thing and then I need to plug off the PC. Last time it froze a blue line appeared while running FireFox and bang it crashed. And as I typed this, the area where you can select desktops turned totally black and the colors got dissorted. That blank box also covered the lower part of FireFox. I am running KDE 3.2, Celeron 566MHZ, 128MB SDRAM, GeForce 2 MX 400 (I am using the generic drivers that Mandrake provides though). One 160GB 7200RPM Maxtor HD with a smaller 9GB 7200 FireBall HD, and the PC is a Dell Dimension L566Cx. Any clues? Thanks for any help guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Are you using the nvidia 7xxx drivers? Than that is the problem. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 I'm suspecting hardware here. Do other OSes work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 I would guess hardware also. Download a memtest boot disk and run memtest overnight to check your memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relix3000 Posted April 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 (edited) Well, other OS do work (XP Pro works) and I am using the drivers that come already with Mandrake (not the official ones but some kind of generic drivers) and Ill check what daniewicz said =). Thanks for the replies guys =D. *Edit: Well, I think the problem MAY lie in KDE. I have been running Gnome for the past 12 hours with no problems so far, doing the usual stuff I do in KDE. If GNOME does crash then I am running the memtest this night.* *Edit: Well, nvm that. GNOME just crashed. So I guess Ill run the test* Edited April 10, 2005 by Relix3000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relix3000 Posted April 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 Ok, I ran Memtest86 and no problems found in the memory. I have been looking in some other forums and NVidia latest Linux driver does the very same thing that is happening to me. Thing is I DONT have that driver installed, its the nv one (or something like that...its open source I think and comes bundled with MK10.1). Could it be the NVidia card? A few minutes ago I was doing a Presentation for my class and MK crashed once more. I could just move the mouse and nothing else responded. I checked syslog and the exact moment of the crash, and all I could see was: Apr 10 20:01:00 localhost CROND[4787]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Apr 10 20:58:20 localhost syslogd 1.4.1: restart. So, it isnt being recorded in the logs. But what I have no clue is why that CRON command is running at :01 minutes of every hour. Is that supossed to be there? Any clues? Whatever happens I am keeping Mandrake, its the best Linux distro for me but I would like to get rid of this little annoyance. Thanks for any answers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 11, 2005 Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 How long did you run memtest? It needs to run overnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relix3000 Posted April 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 I ran it around 1PM towards 10PM ...it was a erally slow thing o.0. But, I am going to leave it running while I am out. I should be here around 5 and see if anything is bad, Thanks for the replies =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 11, 2005 Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 the cron thing is standard; MDK's cron is setup to run a script called cron.hourly every hour, one called cron.daily every day, one called cron.weekly every week, and one called cron.monthly every month. These scripts, in turn, simply execute every script in a given directory. You can find all this stuff under /etc/cron.d/ , IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relix3000 Posted April 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 Well, that is something I did not now. Thanks Adam =). Anyway, memtest showed no errors in the memory so it surely isnt that. It finished an hour from now. So...any other clues guys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 11, 2005 Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 So you say Win XP is working OK but Mandrake crashes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relix3000 Posted April 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 (edited) Yeah thats what I mean. WinXP Pro works with no problems whatsoever, no crashes no problems. So, the problem must be Mandrake. Edited April 12, 2005 by Relix3000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Try using your #1 installation CD and doing a repair installation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relix3000 Posted April 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Well..I actually thought about doing that but RIGHT now it would be problematic since I am working on other things. But...can I only repair the files of CD #1? I thought i needed to install everything all the CDs over again. But, that means all the stuff I have installed will be deleted right?? Like all the urpmi stuff? Anyway a few minutes ago I took a picture of a weird problem (another one): http://www.eternal-anime.net/otherimages/snapshot2.jpg. Even though its hardly noticiable, there are some gray lines forming an X that pass over the wallpaper. I am extremely sure this is not part of the wallpaper since I've had that one for a few days and those lines were never there, as well as I have it for WinXP as well. I am guessing maybe the Display Manager is having problems. This is extremely confusing >_<. But I like to solve this kind of stuff =). Another thing to note is that Mandrake has not crashed in the last 12 hours. Anyway, thanks for all the answers and the support. You guys really rock. I guess this kind of support is what sets Mandrake apart from other distros :-D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 I have done a repair once. Only CD#1 was required and packages that I had installed were not affected. Not sure what to tell you about the graphics thing. Maybe you should install the nvidia driver, although it shouldn't be necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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