lynchmob Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 I have 2 systems running the Christmas club ed.. Both systems are running 24/7 for my distributed computing software, Rosetta@Home. I leave them logged off until I need to use the system and for most of the time, there are no issues. But when I login and kde starts, it will hang briefly during the " Initializing Peripherals" part and then restart x and kick me back to the kdm login screen. A cold reboot fixes this and will go for weeks before it happens again. This happens randomly and only when I try to login and use my kde desktop. I have'nt had time to really dig in and find what's causing this( though I suspect it's a kde thing) and wondered if this was a common problem? lynchmob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 I've had similar problems on one of my systems, which I built myself, and I found it to be a problem with a BIOS configuration. If you have an option called "Load Optimised Defaults" in your BIOS, choose this, then save, and see if it gets any better for you. I found I had to login twice before I'd get KDE normally, and after I'd done this it was OK. Also, try running memtest although it'll take a long time to run, it will at least highlight if there are some memory problems. Before I chose Load Optimised, my system had loads of memory errors, and afterwards, no errors. It seemed my BIOS was configured incorrectly, and might possibly be a similar situation for you. Just something to check anyhow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynchmob Posted February 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 These are home-built: I have been running one for about 4 years and the other about 1 year. They never displayed this problem until after I installed MDV 2006 Christmas Club edition. All other versions of Linux that I have run on these 2 systems ran fine. The problem with solving this is that it may only happen every 2 weeks or 1 week and everything is good in the interim. Thanks for the suggestions but I think it is a kde/kdm or x thing specific to this version of MDV. If you think of anything else, I'm all ears. :) I'm going to try the updated kde and xorg packages next. lynchmob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I had this happen with x problems. I don't think it is hde so much as x. Have you updated x.org? FWIW, kde prob lems tend to cause failed programs and freezing; x reboot is x. Just guesses, but have seemed to be the case in the past for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynchmob Posted February 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I had this happen with x problems. I don't think it is hde so much as x. Have you updated x.org? FWIW, kde prob lems tend to cause failed programs and freezing; x reboot is x. Just guesses, but have seemed to be the case in the past for me. Good point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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