On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:21:52PM +0100, Jan Schumacher wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> on the Pentium version of an Asus 2400 I experience KDE crashes after an
> unpredictable period of time. Without any apparent cause, the computer
> freezes completely, not even answering to pings over LAN. The system fan
> speeds up to maximum, higher than it does when compiling the kernel several
> times. This usually happens no earlier then after about half an hour,
> sometimes after one or two hours, with or without user activity. Screensavers
> are disabled.
did you try to telnet on your system. It seems an X crash, so kernel and
other applications would be perfectly "alive"
>
> I am using Ralph Nolden's Woody backport of KDE3.1 and XFree4.2 from Sid, as
> 4.1 doesn't have a suitable display driver. The same thing happened with a
> XFree4.3 backport and different minor versions of the KDE3 packages. It has
> not happened while kdm was displaying a login, or with twm at all.
if your system has a SiS630/SiS730 chipset (as I think) look at
http://www.winischhofer.net (but perhaps you always know it)
>
> In the logs under /var/log I didn't find anything unusual after such a crash.
> Main memory seems to be working well enough that memtester86 doesn't find any
> fault with it after a night. The kernel compiles fine several times in a row,
> so nothing blatant seems to be wrong with the hardware.
perhaps some kde daemon go in loop after a period. I experienced some
problems with arts (on a sis730 chipset): try to disable it.
>
> I am a bit lost as to what I can try next. Any help would be appreciated.
I hope it helps
Regards
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