Re: Fedora 6 strange hangs

[Al Graziano <al.graziano@xxxxxxxxx>]

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My laptop has just hung again and just before that I could see from my 
other pc sshed to the laptop that

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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