RE: Centos Freezing

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On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 06:02 -0400, John wrote:
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Robert Spangler
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 9:19 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re:  Centos Freezing
> 
> On Thursday 15 May 2008 21:51, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> 
> >  Hi Robert,
> >
> >  Robert Spangler wrote:
> >  > For some reason at different times Centos will freeze and not allow 
> > me  > to do anything.  This doesn't happen while I'm working on the 
> > system but  > after I have locked my session and then return.  It 
> > could goes days  > without a lockup and then the next time I try to log in
> it'll be frozen.
> >  >
> >  > I would like to know if anyone else has seen this or knows of a fix 
> > or  > where I could start to look to find out if there is a process or  
> > > something causing this.
> >
> >  Not me, have not had such an issue. make sure you are completely 
> > yum-updated for a start.
> 
> Always.  Done nightly. :)
> 
> >  > I normally have the same programs running so I don't think it could 
> > be  > caused by me starting and then leaving something new running.
> >
> >  I guess the reason why no one has replied to your post so far is that 
> > its hard to work out or even think about such issues without some more
> context.
> > Do you have proprietary drivers installed for anything ? ndiswrapper 
> > for wifi  ? grfx drivers for nvidia or ati ? Could there be a network
> issue ?
> 
> Only thing I'm running that isn't in the repo's is the nVidia driver for my
> Geforce FX550.
> 
> Oh, Thnx for the reply!!
> 
> Regards
> Robert
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> Please try to update your nVidia Driver to the current level version and see
> if that solves your problem. Make sure you are using the X config file that
> is generated by the driver and do not add anything to it (as in options).
> Some options if your mother board can not handle or support it, it will
> freeze lockup etc.
> 
> Let me Know how it goes..
> 
> John Stanley

I had a similar situation on CentOS 4.x and on 5.0, different boxes.  In
both cases it was resolved by replacing a bad stick of RAM.  If the box
can be off line I would suggest a 24 hour run of memtest.  On my systems
it only occurred with the GUI running.

Cheers,
B.J.

CentOS 5.1, Linux 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 athlon 07:28:37 up 21:02, 0 users,
load average: 0.30, 0.10, 0.02

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