[ale] Strange hangs with Mandrake 9.2 & GNOME

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:17 am, Dow Hurst wrote:
> You may have some IDE issues that log errors continuously.  Sound like
> some hardware issue that the kernel doesn't like. 

I can't find any log messages about that, but I hadn't considered the IDE 
system.  The board has SATA and regular IDE, but I'm using IDE.  I'll look 
again.

> You might drop back
> to the older system that worked or switch to Gentoo with a later
> kernel.  Just an idea.  Oh, and on boot in your current system you
> should try disabling ACPI or try noapic.  Either might help you.

I was thinking I'd try a reinstall, but disabling ACPI is a better first try.  
I wish I knew how to trigger the problem--that would make it so much easier 
to test.

Thanks,

Michael

> Dow
>
> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> >You may have heard me mention that I have my wife using Linux, now.  She
> > has a nice fast hyperthreading CPU, plenty of RAM, CDRW, DVD reader--in
> > short, she should be a happy camper.
> >
> >I recently upgraded her to Mandrake 9.2 with the latest OpenOffice, GNOME,
> > and Evolution and suddenly weird stuff is happening.  Her system will
> > suddenly hang for a few seconds, then restart.  Internet activities (http
> > and POP mail, for example) seem very slow.
> >
> >As she was complaining I started watching her machine from my laptop.  It
> > was not returning pings very well--sometime not at all, and sometimes
> > with 5 second delays.  I logged on to her machine and pinged the mail
> > server--it was showing the same problems.  I could ping it fine from my
> > laptop.
> >
> >Later I logged on to her system.  I was running top, then I started
> > xosview which is a graphical system monitor.  xosview show 100% CPU
> > usage, but top didn't show any process using much CPU.  This lasted about
> > 5 seconds, then stopped and I couldn't get it to recur over the next
> > hour.
> >
> >Any clues or suggestions?  I'm running two other Mandrake installations
> >without trouble, though they tend to be in KDE, not GNOME.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Michael
> >
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