Fedora 6 strange hangs

[Al Graziano]

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My laptop has just hung again and just before that I could see from my 
other pc sshed to the laptop that

1) kded had gone to 100% CPU

until the laptop finally hanged on

2) klogd on 100% CPU

and I lost the ssh connection and I had to perform a hard reboot!

Can anyone spot anything or suggest anything :-)

Thanks again
Al

ann kok wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I also encounter this problem
>
> I used the fedora 6 update button to update the
> packages last Friday
>
> After reboot, it keeps hanging after few minutes.
>
>
>
> --- Al Graziano <al.graziano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> In perfect Murphy's law style.. I'm now monitoring
>> CPU usage from 
>> another machine sshed into mine and nothing is
>> happening. I was anyway 
>> using the top command before but only after I was
>> experiencing the slow 
>> down but didn't see anything suspicious. Let's wait
>> and see.
>>
>>
>> Could anyone point out how to identify the events
>> that make my system to 
>> beep occasionally. It is annoying for one thing! And
>> for the other it 
>> may be trying to alert me of something but I don't
>> know what
>>
>> Thanks
>> Al
>>
>> Chris Rouch wrote:
>>     
>>> On 4/17/07, Al Graziano <al.graziano at gmail.com>
>>>       
>> wrote:
>>     
>>>> I hope some can help me as I am getting very
>>>>         
>> frustrated.
>>     
>>>> I have recently update my Fedora 6 to the latest
>>>>         
>> kernel etc. and I am
>>     
>>>> now experiencing some very strange, apparently
>>>>         
>> random behaviour
>>     
>>>> 1) All of a sudden the system starts going very
>>>>         
>> very slow until it
>>     
>>>> eventually hangs and has to be rebooted with the
>>>>         
>> laptop power button
>>     
>>> I've seen something similar. I have a box running
>>>       
>> mythtv which has 2
>>     
>>> pvr500 tv cards in it. When all 4 tuners are
>>>       
>> recording, on a 2.6.19
>>     
>>> kernel I'd see the load average get up to 5 or so,
>>>       
>> and the system
>>     
>>> would still be useable. With kernel-2.6.20-1.2933,
>>>       
>> the system would
>>     
>>> melt down - the load average would hit 20 or so
>>>       
>> and the only way to
>>     
>>> get sanity back would be to kill processes using a
>>>       
>> lot of memory
>>     
>>> (typically the X server). Rolling back to 2.6.19
>>>       
>> made the problem go
>>     
>>> away. I haven't tried any newer kernel.
>>>
>>> I'm reluctant to blame the kernel specifcally
>>>       
>> (especially as I've not
>>     
>>> found anyone complaining about problems). I have a
>>>       
>> legacy nvidia
>>     
>>> graphics card, so I'm running
>>>       
>> nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl, plus
>>     
>>> ivtv-kmdl-2.6.19-1.2911 to drive the pvr500s. But
>>>       
>> as reverting the
>>     
>>> kernel (and thus the kmdls) fixed it, I concluded
>>>       
>> that there's
>>     
>>> something wrong with the kernel+kmdl combination.
>>>
>>> My system is quite old (athlon 2800+), but has
>>>       
>> 1.5Gb memory and the
>>     
>>> same amount of swap, and normally seems able to
>>>       
>> handle anything I
>>     
>>> throw at it.
>>>
>>> So in summary, try using a 2.6.19 kernel instead
>>>       
>> and see if it helps.
>>     
>>> Please report back here either way.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>       
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