Crashing with Dell
Michael J. Lynch
mlynch at gcom.com
Mon Aug 22 15:28:16 UTC 2005
Dennis_Drescher at sil.org wrote:
> I've been using Ubuntu for a couple months now on both a Dell Precision
> 330 and a Latitude D610. Off and on I've had problems with what I'll call
> hard crashes. What I mean is that the machine completely locks up and will
> not allow me to take it down by going into a shell. The only way to
> recover is to power down. This obviously wreaks havoc on my file structure
> and I have to run fsck often to fix the partitions. The Latitude, which is
> running Ubuntu 5.0.4 (with the KDE desktop installed) locks up
> infrequently and it is hard to predict. The Precision 330 locks up several
> times a day. Sometimes while I'm typing or using the mouse, many times
> just while it is sits idle.
>
> I've used Linux for several years now and have never had such an unstable
> system. I also run Kanotix on both machines in another partition and it
> can run all day long with no problems. I've also run checks on my hardware
> and I'm confident it is functioning okay. I'm thinking it might be a
> problem with X but I'm not sure what to do at this point. Can anyone give
> me some clues as to how to diagnose this? Thanks.
>
Can you SSH or telnet into the machine? If so, run top and see if X is
taking up pretty much all of your processor. If so, I've heard of this
occurring and experienced it myself. I don't know how to fix it, but
I've heard that it *may* be a problem with the Xorg distribution of X
and/or DRI.
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Michael J. Lynch
What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown
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