Re: Fedora 6 strange hangs

Latest development...

1) kded had gone to 100% CPU

until the laptop finally hanged on

2) klogd on 100% CPU

and I lost the ssh connection and I had to perform a hard reboot!

Can anyone spot anything or suggest anything :-)

Thanks again
Al

ann kok wrote:

Hi all

I also encounter this problem

I used the fedora 6 update button to update the
packages last Friday

After reboot, it keeps hanging after few minutes.



--- Al Graziano <al.graziano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In perfect Murphy's law style.. I'm now monitoring

CPU usage from another machine sshed into mine and nothing is happening. I was anyway using the top command before but only after I was experiencing the slow down but didn't see anything suspicious. Let's wait

and see.


Could anyone point out how to identify the events

that make my system to beep occasionally. It is annoying for one thing! And for the other it may be trying to alert me of something but I don't

know what

Thanks
Al

Chris Rouch wrote:

On 4/17/07, Al Graziano <al.graziano@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I hope some can help me as I am getting very

frustrated.

I have recently update my Fedora 6 to the latest

kernel etc. and I am

now experiencing some very strange, apparently

random behaviour

1) All of a sudden the system starts going very

very slow until it

eventually hangs and has to be rebooted with the

laptop power button

I've seen something similar. I have a box running

mythtv which has 2

pvr500 tv cards in it. When all 4 tuners are

recording, on a 2.6.19

kernel I'd see the load average get up to 5 or so,

and the system

would still be useable. With kernel-2.6.20-1.2933,

the system would

melt down - the load average would hit 20 or so

and the only way to

get sanity back would be to kill processes using a

lot of memory

(typically the X server). Rolling back to 2.6.19

made the problem go

away. I haven't tried any newer kernel.

I'm reluctant to blame the kernel specifcally

(especially as I've not

found anyone complaining about problems). I have a

legacy nvidia

graphics card, so I'm running

nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl, plus

ivtv-kmdl-2.6.19-1.2911 to drive the pvr500s. But

as reverting the

kernel (and thus the kmdls) fixed it, I concluded

that there's

something wrong with the kernel+kmdl combination.

My system is quite old (athlon 2800+), but has

1.5Gb memory and the

same amount of swap, and normally seems able to

handle anything I

throw at it.

So in summary, try using a 2.6.19 kernel instead

and see if it helps.

Please report back here either way.

Regards,

Chris

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