FC2 Hangs (acpi?)

[Cyrus Adkisson]

I just wanted to add my two cents here about freezing and hanging with 
FC2. It's only tangentially related, but I figured somebody might find 
it useful.

I have FC2 running on a dual opteron (x86_64) architecture with an MSI 
K8T Master-FAR motherboard that was hanging on me every couple of hours. 
Not just X, but the whole darn machine. The motherboard has several USB 
slots around where the serial ports are, and I was using one of them in 
conjunction with a USB KVM switch. The motherboard comes with a little 
USB bracket that you plug in and then screw into the case, and since I 
was all out of options on how to make these hangs stop, I decided to 
give the bracket a whirl in favor of the USB slots on the main component 
panel. That was about 48 hours ago and I haven't had a single hang since.

Maybe it's the difference between USB 2.0 and 1.1, maybe the drivers for 
this particular VIA chipset are buggy, maybe my motherboard is damaged 
in some way... I'm not really sure. But I do know that if someone is 
having similar problems, try switching your USB around, or getting PS/2 
input devices. It might solve your problem before you start yanking 
hardware in and out of your case.

Cyrus

p.s. The first post said something about "user cyrus" which is weird, 
because that's me.

Gene Smith wrote:

> Reuben D. Budiardja wrote, On 06/30/2004 09:16 AM:
>
>> On Tuesday 29 June 2004 07:26 pm, Wesley (Buck) Lemke wrote:
>>
>>> I did a clean install of FC2.  I have been keeping up2date with all the
>>> packages, so currently I am running 2.6.6-1.435, however all three
>>> kernels have had the same problem (2.6.6-1.427 and 2.6.5-1.358).  The
>>> machine will just completely lock up after about a day.  This usually
>>> happens when the screen saver is on, so I assumed it was related to the
>>> video card some how.  I started reading through this list and read 
>>> about
>>> the 8k stack problem with the nVidia driver (I have a GeForce 3).
>>>
>>> Does the 8k stack problem affect the generic driver that ships with
>>> FC2?  I haven't installed the nVidia driver yet.
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> FWIW, I had lockups when I use nVidia GeForce with the generic 
>> driver. But IIRC, it was only the X. I could SSH to the machine and 
>> kill X, for example. I didn't pursue the problem since I was only 
>> testing/play around with the machine. I ended up putting RHEL in it 
>> (which I had plan for before). Sorry couldn't more help.
>>
>> RDB
>>
> I see same problem RDB sees but sporadic (with GeF/generic dvr). I can 
> ssh or vncviewer in and  sys is still working but local X server is 
> locked (except mouse cursor still moves) with no keyboard response or 
> mouse click or location response. No problems for couple weeks til 
> now. Just started runing KsCD to play CDs. Has occurred twice in 2 day 
> with this running. Not sure if related. Will not run it and see if 
> stops locking.
>
> gds
>
>