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[KDE 3.2.1] Random Freezing
My system just "FREEZES" at seemingly random events!!!! I have no idea what is happening, but it never happened with kde 3.1. I have tried removing ~/.kde and kderc but to no avail. How can i debug something like this? The mouse works, however everything else is totally frozen. I cant leave to a console by pressing Ctrl-Shift-F1/F4. It is very very very annoying, i have to keep rebooting! Help!
Seb
Have you upgraded X as well. This can be related to it instead of KDE.
If you have not, then try to make keep 'top' or 'ksysguard' (not sure about the name, just hit CTRL+ESC) running and see if there is some process eating all the CPU or all the memory.
When I faced a situation like that it was always one of two things: X got mad and gone to 100% CPU or some application eating all memory forcing the kernel to put applications to swap (a disaster when the choosen one is X or KDE).
Oh! Other thing...if you reboot, try to look at the kernel messages to see if there is something strange there.
Good luck.
Is this problem related to the panel (kicker) at the bottom of the screen? There were a lot of us who were having KDE 3.2 freeze on us and it was because of the klipper icon. If you remove the klipper icon, then the problem is solved.
To test this, turn off the kicker (the command: killall kicker) and see if it still freezes on you.
Good luck.
So is the problem klipper or the kicker? Because i still use the panel, but i can live withouth klipper. Will the problem be solved if i change the icon?
3.2.2 Freezing up..
I have seen my mouse stop moving every once in a while - I find that I can ctrl-alt-F8 then Alt-F1 to get to a CLI - I then move my mouse around and I see a character-mode block moving. Then I Alt-F7 to go back to the desktop and the mouse will be live again.
I am not running kicker, so that's not implicated in this case.
Clint
ps It just happened again, and my work-around worked again. How's *that* for verifying things? <grin>
c
I've had this problem twice. Once it was a bad A 10 gate chip on the motherboard and once it was bad memory.
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