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 1QeTYu-00087s-02 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:58:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49D5021C050; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 14:57:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C92D21C050 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 14:57:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwb7 with SMTP id 7so4701563qwb.40 for ; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:57:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yU27QQj+ZP9OiDnOMVdDSPcEbz97j3IHL452ea3SEBU=; b=aKo0iwDSfykJj2qJSQzm5LH2bmlDFlzx8t9qZw5PW/X7XKyk/8RcTOMeG4kuxeM3a0 nosmDE2UYw4Hqir9eQgm9XQRqWcT4R1D1DsF3uzeI1alYIO93xsMaXvAnJndFfzgxSz7 9IflBei21b9LkD53M0WMVPkwQTCuhs+FQo000= 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 Received: by 10.224.201.1 with SMTP id ey1mr6291453qab.44.1309964242464; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:57:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.28.70 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 07:57:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201107061544.17455.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <4E11EEF3.70804@gmail.com> <4E13A637.3080701@gmail.com> <201107061544.17455.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 07:57:22 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups. From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ac61e7d087e64a58e5cafe52487b1524 On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Peter Humphrey w= rote: > On Wednesday 06 July 2011 01:03:03 Dale wrote: > >> I might add, the last time it locked up, I had a compile process running >> in a console. =C2=A0I watched the hard drive light, it was blinking away= . >> So, the root of the system was running but for some reason, I could not >> get my mouse or keyboard to work. =C2=A0It appears it is the GUI part th= at is >> locking up but whatever it is, it is not affecting Fluxbox. =C2=A0I also >> tried the shift alt F12 to disable composite as well. > > This is sounding more and more like the lockups I've been experiencing. I= n > my case it was every distro other than Gentoo. > > I'm trying Fedora with "Asus Express Gate" switched off in the BIOS, and = it > seems to be helping. I know you don't have an Asus motherboard though, so > I'm not helping :-( > > When did you last recompile your kernel? What version is it? (Sorry if > you've told us already, but if so I missed it.) > > -- > Rgds > Peter Speaking as someone who runs 100% (except when I don't) I wonder if this is driven at all by the use of testing packages? I have only Asus & Intel MB's and laptops here. They all use the NVidia closed source testing driver except one which uses the Intel driver. None of them are experiencing any lockups at any time that I know of. This is pretty typical of where I don't run stable: c2stable ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords sys-kernel/gentoo-sources ~amd64 sys-apps/portage ~* app-portage/eix ~amd64 app-emulation/virtualbox ~amd64 app-emulation/virtualbox-modules ~amd64 app-emulation/virtualbox-additions ~amd64 x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox ~amd64 x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox ~amd64 app-emulation/vmware-modules ~amd64 app-emulation/vmware-tools ~amd64 app-emulation/vmware-player ~amd64 x11-libs/libview ~amd64 sci-libs/ta-lib ~amd64 sys-power/cpufrequtils ~amd64 media-libs/tiff ~amd64 dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit ~amd64 dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk ~amd64 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~amd64 dev-util/codeblocks ~amd64 x11-misc/read-edid ~amd64 net-im/skype ~amd64 app-forensics/chkrootkit ~amd64 dev-lang/R ~amd64 c2stable ~ # Cheers, Mark