-- Quoting Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Wassim Bassalee wrote: > > > Hi Mark, > > > > Thank you for your response. > > I noticed considerable slowdown when browsing the Internet. When looking > > at the connectivity (indicated by the lights on the modem) I found that it > was > > going on and off. Juggling the cables slightly seemed to give a steady > light on > > the modem but Internet browsing showed no improvement. As a matter of fact, > > > mouse movement and the entire system became extremely slow and minutes > later > > completely unresponsive. > > I couldn't open a terminal, so I rebooted the system. The problem appeared > > > since. > > The slowdown sounds like perhaps something bad happened in the kernel. > Were you able to shutdown cleanly or did you have to hit the reset switch. > There may have been disk corruption, in which case, installing a new > X-server might be a good idea (try something newer like 4.3 while you're > at it). Or it's possible that this bad stuff was due to some device acting > weird. Are the /var/log/messages that look suspicious (like panics) back > from when the slowdown happened? Anyhow, it sounds like a system-level > problem, perhaps a hardware problem. Do you have problems with > overheating? > You also might want to check that all your cards and ram are plugged in > securely. > > I'm assuming it's not a new machine and you haven't changed anything > recently (like adding new ram)? > > Mark. > Hi Mark, I had to hit the reset switch. I couldn't get a clean shutdown. You're right about the machine. It is old. I will back up my files and upgrade to a newer version of the OS while I am at it. Thanks for the help. Greatly appreciated. Wassim > > > > Now that you are asking about PCI, I noticed in the boot log the following > > > lines: > > <6>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfa174, last bus=1 > > <6>PCI: Using configuration type 1 > > <6>PCI: Probing PCI hardware > > <3>Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent > > <3>Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent > > <3>Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent > > <6>PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:14.0 > > <6>PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 01:00.0 > > <6>PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:03.0 > > <6>PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing > > > > and later > > > > <6>PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:04.0 > > <6>PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:14.5 > > <6>Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of > > <4>lspci -vv, this message (134d, 7897, 134d, 0001) > > <4>and the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board > > <4>to serial-pci-info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > <4>register_serial(): autoconfig failed > > > > Also when booting the machine interactively I was able to find the > following > > failures: > > > > Starting ia64fmt: Installing IA-64 interpreters: mount: none > > already mounted or /proc/sys/fs/bin-fmt-misc busy > > mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on > > /proc/sys/fs/bin-fmt-misc [FAILED] > > Starting devfsd deamon: Error opening file: ".devfsd" > > No such file or directory [FAILED] > > > > Do you think that this is a problem with the X server itslef or with > something > > else? > > > > Quoting Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > Something catastrophic seems to have happened at a low-level. > > > That "Cannot read colourmap from VGA" message seems to imply > > > that writing or reading the video hardware has failed. Did you > > > change something about the machine? For instance, some bios > > > settings, or add a new PCI card? > > > > > > > > > Mark. > > > > > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Wassim Bassalee wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > The X server on my Mandrake 9.0 Linux > > > > machine stopped booting yesterday. > > > > The XFree86.0.log is attached to this > > > > e-mail message. > > > > I'll truly appreciate any suggestions > > > > on where to proceed from here. > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > Wassim > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > XFree86 mailing list > > > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
