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  • Registered: 2011-10-20
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Topic: Anyone else getting total freezeups on the latest Statler?

A few times now my entire system has ground to a halt. I might be just browsing the web or playing music on Banshee, and then the computer just freezes. The clock in the top right corner still ticks along, but no left/right clicking or keyboard shortcuts do anything, bar CTRL+ALT+F1 (which I can then use to force slim to stop, then start back up again -however, the terminal runs slow, as in it won't always register keystrokes -which makes inputting a password a nightmare- and typing is painfully slow to appear on screen).
I haven't done anything weird to my system; it's pretty much a clean install: virtually the only things I've done are install Chrome, Banshee and the NVIDIA driver (and the freeze thing happened once or twice before I'd installed the NVIDIA driver).
Has anyone else had this problem?

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  • Registered: 2009-02-18
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Re: Anyone else getting total freezeups on the latest Statler?

Yes, it also happend to my #! latest setup (twice) - total freeze.

It could be due to the fact that I've deactivated xscreensaver (which I just hate).
Also there is other problem with tint2, and its icons - battery etc. They move to the left every suspend-to-RAM. There is a little gap between clock and battery icon. This is a minor problem for me, I simply deactivated tint2. I don't really relay on panel anyway since I usually use tiling window managers  smile

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Re: Anyone else getting total freezeups on the latest Statler?

@Throne

when this happens it would be good to look at the output of top or even better htop
Get it with sudo apt-get install htop and let it run in a separate window (open a terminal, start htop) so you can see which process is misbehaving.

Do you have Swap? Check the output of free -h

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  • From: 1984
  • Registered: 2011-12-09
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Re: Anyone else getting total freezeups on the latest Statler?

I've had problems with Banshee on Ubuntu that made my computer freeze I think on Ubuntu. Thought it was due to encryption ATT.

I started getting freezing in #! almost immediately after boot a few weeks ago (hadn't updated in a while so don't know when it started). Disabling network worked for me. Enabling wired network after it booted fully didn't crash it. Didn't test anything else since wireless is useless for me because of incompatible router and wireless hardware.

  • From: UK
  • Registered: 2011-10-20
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Re: Anyone else getting total freezeups on the latest Statler?

machinebacon wrote:

@Throne

when this happens it would be good to look at the output of top or even better htop
Get it with sudo apt-get install htop and let it run in a separate window (open a terminal, start htop) so you can see which process is misbehaving.

Do you have Swap? Check the output of free -h

I wouldn't be able to. Unless the terminal window happened to be on top when the system froze (and it's not practical for me to have a terminal window hogging my screen space all the time), I wouldn't be able to get to it :s I'd check what conky was outputting, but it's never froze when I've had the desktop showing -I assume that's just bad luck rather than part of a cause.

Oh, and terminal complains that -h isn't a valid option for free. To quote:

free: invalid option -- 'h'
usage: free [-b|-k|-m|-g] [-l] [-o] [-t] [-s delay] [-c count] [-V]
  -b,-k,-m,-g show output in bytes, KB, MB, or GB
  -l show detailed low and high memory statistics
  -o use old format (no -/+buffers/cache line)
  -t display total for RAM + swap
  -s update every [delay] seconds
  -c update [count] times
  -V display version information and exit
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Re: Anyone else getting total freezeups on the latest Statler?

Edit: Stupid double post.

Last edited by Throne777 (2011-12-11 13:44:51)

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Re: Anyone else getting total freezeups on the latest Statler?

Do you have to reboot to get out of the freeze?
After you reboot, anything abnormal in kernel logs?
examine log files in /var/log for info related to rhe freeze.
Does it happen with specific applications, actions...?

The goal here is to collect more information on what is causing the freezes.
hth

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  • From: UK
  • Registered: 2011-10-20
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Re: Anyone else getting total freezeups on the latest Statler?

xaos52 wrote:

Do you have to reboot to get out of the freeze?
After you reboot, anything abnormal in kernel logs?
examine log files in /var/log for info related to rhe freeze.
Does it happen with specific applications, actions...?

The goal here is to collect more information on what is causing the freezes.
hth

Next time it happens, I'll post the log info. after I reboot (as I won't have a clue what's relevant, unless there's a chunk of text that says 'ERROR!!!!')

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