From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qf4Ca-0006bC-Re for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:06:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0D0021C098 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 06:06:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 596BE21C03A for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 06:02:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh22 with SMTP id 22so1499529wyh.40 for ; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:02:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=XeYzxmKkmyZojXLlxqS8ba/2b+o9Ym9UINAcmf4D/Sk=; b=RfL8jdDMsaSZa4Wia53Le8ZjmCD6IkrX/YtNw6/09xpRkAz7/7dd7ecV9bVIUXeh2E nbMcjWJNy6EFpeKe0LhKHSbgy1id6ynMSWrplXNJBN490OIWRkBTSApIV4xirAjo+crz tpmqFC7ZVC1WSj5R10Ci9E4yj64KgKFh6KTkg= Received: by 10.227.179.2 with SMTP id bo2mr1461744wbb.92.1310104935510; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fi5sm7412025wbb.56.2011.07.07.23.02.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:02:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups. Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 07:02:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E11EEF3.70804@gmail.com> <4E168B0E.2070100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E168B0E.2070100@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5807004.58brBg3Qy3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107080702.58452.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2631b5a3afb0f7f40c74f5f1bd9932a2 --nextPart5807004.58brBg3Qy3 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 08 Jul 2011 05:43:58 Dale wrote: > walt wrote: > > On 07/05/2011 10:38 PM, Dale wrote: > >> My current plan, finish this new install. Test the ram and hope it is > >> OK. > >=20 > > I can feel your pain :( This may not help, but I thought I'd mention it > > just because nothing else has helped so far. > >=20 > > I started having random keyboard issues right after the most recent xorg > > update on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines. > >=20 > > Maybe just once/day or so I'll hit a key and the auto-repeat function > > starts repeating the keystroke ad infinitum until I hit Backspace. > >=20 > > This is not a lockup like your problem, but it was striking that this > > random keyboard problem started right after the recent xorg update. > > (Yes, I recompiled all the drivers after the upgrade.) > >=20 > > Since you are recompiling/reinstalling everything anyway, what about > > masking the most recent xorg-server/xorg-driver updates so you can test > > older versions? You quad-core speed demon ;p >=20 > I'm going to add this to the "to try" list. That sort of makes sense. > Most of the time it is a hard lock up. It won't even let me ssh in from > my old rig or use the SysReq keys. Sometimes tho, it acts like things > are still running but the GUI is locked up. I didn't get to try to ssh > in then tho. I know once I had a compile running and I could see the > hard drive light blinking as it compiled. So something was working that > time at least. One thing I did learn, if the lights on the keyboard > are blinking, it's locked up tight. If they are not blinking, I can use > the SysReq keys to reboot. >=20 > I also thought about just booting Knoppix and seeing if it works. Maybe > it is just some weird code that Konsole and Firefox have in common > somehow. The only thing is, I'm sure they will use different version of > all the software. It may not make any difference except to rule out > hardware. I'm pretty sure hardware is OK but we know how hard those are > to track down. >=20 > One more thing on the try list if this doesn't work. >=20 > Thanks. >=20 > Dale I'm stating the obvious here, but have you tried restoring from a back up t= hat=20 you made before these problems started? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart5807004.58brBg3Qy3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk4WnZIACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYXdwCeK39AkECyTeeCBHv4XWh6ZrPs uj4AoLKBX2VYj6EXnS2nbwPKd3ILRWta =bG/R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5807004.58brBg3Qy3--