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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