Filip K. Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 After I freshly installed Mandriva One 2009 with preserved /home I receive a regular kernel panic or even total freeze in one hour or even less. Blinking keyboard LEDs (Caps lock and Scroll) are the only information about kernel panic. I tried several things. Disconnected Webcam doesn't help. Also no significant change with different kernels: kernel-desktop586-2.6.27.7-1mnb kernel-desktop586-2.6.27.5-2mnb kernel-linus-2.6.27.10-1mdv It's not connected with X freeze mentioned in Errata. I search reported bugs but I was unable to find anything useful. uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.27.7-desktop586-1mnb #1 SMP Thu Dec 11 16:32:08 EST 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ GNU/Linux Motherboard is Asus A7V600-X. Graphic card is Nvidia GeForce 6200 type. I only have one PCI card (Leadtek Winfast 2000). I'm not sure what to do. And believe me that this is very annoying . I was very pleased overall with Mandriva One 2008.1 and earlier versions :D . Please suggest me :unsure: . I wish that 2009 will be without such freezes for all of us, Filip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 Some questions to (hopefully) narrow things down: * Is there anything in your logs (/var/log/syslog) indicating what happens just before the crash * What happens if you boot into single user mode or in level 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 (edited) I would tend to think you have a hardware issue even if it has been working flawlessly before. I would recommend a 24 hour test of your PC with a memtest86 bootable CD: http://www.memtest.org/#downiso If that finds no errors then try a hard disc scan with 'badblocks -svn /dev/sda' (or whatever your boot disk device is), to do this boot from the Mandriva CD in rescue mode (don't do this while booted from the hard disk). If both these tests don't show up errors, then maybe the cpu is overheating for some reason (maybe a fan inside your PC died?) or the power supply might be dieing (providing unstable voltage under load). You could check this for example by installing and configuring 'ksensors' and keeping it open on your desktop. Edited December 31, 2008 by tux99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filip K. Posted January 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Thanks to Adam Williamson's suggestion the culprit is located a little better now. With nv video driver there are no freezes for now B). Unfortunately this driver is barely usable for my setup (Twinview), so I use 2008.1 for now. I'll fill a bug. There is nothing in the logs. Also single user mode or in level 3 there were no crashes for a few hours. I use 'ksensors' with 2008.1. Nothing obvious just yet. I also successfully tested RAM and HDs just a while ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Perhaps you need later version of the nvidia kernel module that supports your card. As you noticed switching to the nv module, the problems stopped. Since single mode and runlevel 3 didn't find anything, it would suggest that it only happens in runlevel 5, when xorg is running - and hence we're back at the nvidia/nv thing that you noticed. Try using the latest nvidia kernel module and see if that fixes your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filip K. Posted January 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Thanks Ian. For an idea to use newest driver :D . But not from 'Backports' which is the root of the problem . Forgot to mention it was "x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-177.82-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm " So I'm testing again. Version "177.70-2.3mdv2009.0" from 'Non-free Updates' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filip K. Posted February 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 There is also freeze in Kubuntu Live and OpenSuse with nvidia driver. Good news is that Mandriva 2009.1 aka 2009 Spring BETA 1 works :D . That confirms my theory about freeze with any nvidia driver and kernel 2.6.27 regardless of used linux distribution . No response from Nvidia on forum and email . At Mandriva Bugzilla they really tried B) . So Spring, here I come :D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 Glad you got it sorted with Spring :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 One still wonders if the bug is in the KDE 4.2 code, or the closed nvidia driver... since that drivers works fine with virtually any other DE/window manager, it seems easy to find someone to blame. In your place, I would simply stop using KDE 4.X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filip K. Posted February 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Then why Spring BETA 1 works? ;) I tried IceWM. Crash almost in instant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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