leebrown Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 I'm looking for information on how to do general troubleshooting of my Mandrake 9.0 install. I've searched this forum and glanced through the documentation but can't seem to find a good troubleshooting tutorial. I've been running ML 9.0 on my system for several months now and recently it's become unstable. I need basic information on how to track down the source of my problem and fix it (i.e. where to look for error messages etc.). It seems to be associated with instability in the sound server as it frequently makes a horrific screeching sound (through the speakers not a crashing harddrive) just before it locks up tight. X freezes and the system is no longer accessible via ssh, etc. Unfortunately, I'm not certain exactely when this problem started as my daughter uses the xmms much more than I do and she just recently told me about the problem. I've also had problems with crashes when using Opera, Netscape, etc. to access midi files with Timidity. Thanks in advance. Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 all logs are stored in /var/log/ you could start by looking thru /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leebrown Posted March 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 Thanks for the reply, Paul. Any suggestions on what in particular I should look for in these files? I can't seem to find any errors directly associated with the times when I have to reboot. There are a few errors that show up repeatedly on boot and in response to CRON jobs. But they don't seem to coorelate with crash times. Thanks, Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 See if there's any info in ~/.xsession-errors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Liono Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 I occasionaly get a complete lockup due to opengl, for some reason. I think it's something wrong with the nvidia driver, maybe the problem is related? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leebrown Posted March 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 Below I've included the .xsession-errors file from my daughters account. I'm not certain if it really says much though. Thanks, Lee 10 DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket DCOPServer up and running. 20 25 30 36 41 47 52 58 63 69 75 80 85 90 ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2613, errno = 2 kdeinit: Communication error with launcher. Exiting! ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2615, errno = 0 _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root DCOPServer up and running. ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2655, errno = 32 Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding _IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding KDirWatch: /etc/security/fileshare.conf is a file. Use addFile! QWidget::setMinimumSize: The smallest allowed size is (0,0) QWidget::setMaximumSize: (unnamed/DigitalClock) Negative sizes (2,-4) are not possible QWidget::setMinimumSize: The smallest allowed size is (0,0) QWidget::setMaximumSize: (unnamed/DigitalClock) Negative sizes (2,-4) are not possible WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major opcode: 14 WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major opcode: 14 mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root Maybe you should start there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 I tried as root and bvc. I also changed owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix to root and bvc...I did all of this while using xmms and without xmms with the same results.....here's they are [bvc@localhost bvc]$ suPassword: [root@localhost bvc]# konqueror --profile filemanagement _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root DCOPServer up and running. KDirWatch: /etc/security/fileshare.conf is a file. Use addFile! [root@localhost bvc]# Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit: Exit. [root@localhost bvc]# konqueror --profile filemanagement DCOPServer up and running. KDirWatch: /etc/security/fileshare.conf is a file. Use addFile! X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 4 (X_DestroyWindow) Resource id in failed request: 0x200034e Serial number of failed request: 375412 Current serial number in output stream: 376730 [root@localhost bvc]# kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit: Exit. Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy [root@localhost bvc]# exit exit [bvc@localhost bvc]$ konqueror --profile filemanagement KDirWatch: /etc/security/fileshare.conf is a file. Use addFile! X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) Resource id in failed request: 0x2000d04 Serial number of failed request: 33239 Current serial number in output stream: 34849 zone still contained 2 blocks [bvc@localhost bvc]$ I always get these errors...at least in kde-3.0.3 and ML9.0. Keep in mind I use waimea for a wm and use kde apps. I'd look elsewhere as well :wink: like WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9Major opcode: 14 mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-multimed...ber/000607.html google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derxen Posted March 4, 2003 Report Share Posted March 4, 2003 I also always get the one about changing ownership of /tmp/.ICE-unix, on 8.1 as well as 9.0. I have no idea what it's about, but it does not affect the stability of the system. derxen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leebrown Posted March 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2003 Well as others have reported, I tried changing ownership of /tmp/.ICE-unix. I'm certain that didn't fix the problem as I had yet another crash this morning. A little info about my system: AMD Athlon XP1800+ Processor K7S5A Elitegroup Motherboard w/ SiS 735 Chipset Onboard Sound and Ethernet 512M DDR Ram IBM 40Gig IC35L040AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100b, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive NVidia GForce2 MX 64M RAM (w/ NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4191 ) Logitech USB Mouse on usb2:2.0 bvc, thanks for your suggestion also, but I'm not really certain what to do with the info from the link you sent. Where do you change what sound server is used? I'm assuming thats what the comment about "artsdsp" means. Thanks for your help. Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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