Hoary freezes!

Herbert Straub herbert at linuxhacker.at
Mon Aug 22 09:49:28 UTC 2005


Quoting Santanu Chatterjee <thisissantanu at gmail.com>:

> Hello everybody,
>
> So far, I have used Hoary Hedgehog on my home computer without any
> trouble. I kept the computer on for as long as ten days at a stretch, but it
> never froze.
>
> But now, I have installed Hoary on several of the computers at our
> lab. The machines
> are all P4 2.4GHz, but with only 128MB RAM. Here I use GNOME. The
> problem is that
> after several hours of work, the machine freezes...hard, and requires a
> reboot.
> This has happened several times.
>
> One hint I got is that sometimes, 'free -m' shows only 1MB of free
> RAM. So I thought
> that it has to be RAM related problem. I now use ratpoison window
> manager. But still,
> last Saturday, I left the computer on and went home. Today, I returned
> and found it
> frozen, just like before. Not just this one, but the problem seems to be
> there
> on every 128MB RAM machines here as well (those that have Hoary. We don't
> have
> Warty here, but even Kubuntu machines have got the same problem).
>

Hallo,

maybe your problem is the same as in BugNr 13144
(http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13144). You can look in the syslog,
if you find some oom-killer messages. I have a similar problem with a Hoary
Machine, which run in this problem after 1 week uptime (without X).

Best regards
Herbert Straub






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