| Summary: | system totaly freezes when trying to view a large .jpg file with nautilus | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Toon Verstraelen <Toon.Verstraelen> |
| Component: | [OLD] GNOME | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://studwww.ugent.be/~tovrstra/img_0210.jpg | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Toon Verstraelen
2003-08-15 12:03:35 UTC
Ok, things have changed recently. The problem is not related to image-viewing. A few minutes ago I was performing a few test-calculations with ghemical. In the meantime I opened the help-file (nautilus starts) Then I clicked view with mozilla. A that moment the machine freezed. I wasn't able to move the mouse (just like during the former freezes). In the background xmms was playing some music. When the macine freezed, the audio-buffer kept repeating. That was a real undergroundsound. :) So far the problem doesn't seem to be image-related, but is still nautilus-related. another note: I've recently added usb and pci hotplugging. (for my camera) Could this have caused the problem? As the problem has changed a bit now, I'm will search for other similar bugs that can be related. I did not realy find anything similar in the bugzilla database, but on the forums I found this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=70262 The same problem is mentioned, but it seems to be related to the combination of gnome2 and having updated your glibc after gnome2 is emerged. I did this too. Hi,
I've tried some new ideas. First I turned of some hardware acceleration in XF86Config. Under the device section I put:
Option "RenderAccel" "False"
Option "Accel" "false"
This did not help. I also made sure to remerge the nvidia kernel driver after kernel compilation. This did not help either. Still the same kind of crashes.
Another trial: I'v removed the nvidia kernel driver and switched in XF86Config from:
...
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia riva TNT"
Driver "nvidia"
# VideoRam 16384
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
# Option "RenderAccel" "False"
# Option "Accel" "false"
EndSection
...
To:
...
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia riva TNT"
Driver "nv"
# VideoRam 16384
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
# Option "RenderAccel" "False"
# Option "Accel" "false"
EndSection
...
This didn't help.
When using the "nv" driver, the system does also spontanuously reboot sometimes. This looks like a possible kernel bug. Try disabling the 'usual kernel suspects' in your kernel: APIC, APM, ACPI, any low-latency patches if you are using a homebrew-patched kernel, and the 'Preemptive Kernel' option. You should be OK going back to the NVIDIA driver, it looks like 'nv' is even worse :-/ OK, thanks. I'll try that. I got a new lockup at boottime when loading the uhci module. So it must be a kernel or a hardware problem. My excuses, it appaered to be a hardware problem. The cpu has gone completely broke. (AMD) It must have been overheated and the effects have only become visible by now. The CPU was only a year old. That's why I didn't suspect it to be broke. My apologies. Could someone close this bug? Ahh, too bad about the hardware :( |
