Successful sarge installation but system lockup very soon (screen frozen, no keyboard)
Hello,
After a net-inst of Debian sarge I get a very serious problem. Any help
would be greatly appreciated...
A few minutes after logging in Gnome, the system freezes.
- The display is blocked: mouse movements are not visible, application
windows do not change any more.
- The keyboard is not responding any more. I tried the following
without any effect: Ctrl+w, Alt+F4, Ctrl+Backspace, NumLock,
Ctrl+Alt+F1. I (humbly) admit I don't know how to use the "magic keys
combinations" recognized by the kernel, so I did not try them.
As far as I can tell the system is completely locked.
When does it occur? Rather randomly, but I can quickly reproduce the
problem if I use a graphics-intensive application like the screensaver
selector or background chooser: the system freezes in seconds. Same
effect if I let the screensaver run.
I suspected something was wrong related to X, but neither XFree86.0.log
nor XFree86.0.log.old seem to contain error messages (to me: I'm
definitely not an expert).
This system runs sarge without external components (for instance the
"nv" driver is used: the proprietary driver from nvidia is not
installed) and without recompiling the kernel (even though I will have
to recompile it anyway because the CM8738 sound driver does not seem to
be present).
Woody runs without any problem (stable, I can select or run a
screensaver or change the background) on another partition of the same
PC. Also "nv" driver, kernel (2.4.21) recompiled, backported gnome 2.2
installed.
Could someone give me some hints or directions for further
investigations?
Many thanks,
_Olivier_
PS: here are the details of my PC and installation.
Debian-installer-version: October 27, 2004, from Belgacom mirror
(Belgium)
uname -a: Linux Shirka 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Mon Sep 13 23:29:55 EDT 2004 i686
GNU/Linux
Date: October 27, 2004
Method: net install, installation boot from CD
Machine: GMT Net
Processor: PIII Celeron 1.1 GHz
Memory: 128 MB, including 8 MB shared (for video)
Root Device: IDE (/dev/hda4)
Root Size/partition table:
4 physical partitions:
1: 6 GB NTFS
2: 5 GB ext2
3: 512 MB swap
4: 7.5 GB ext3
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1621 (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge
[Aladdin IV] (rev c3)
0000:00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738
(rev 10)
0000:00:0c.1 Communication controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738
(rev 20)
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 02)
0000:00:0f.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c2)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [Aladdin
TNT2] (rev 20)
# lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 10b9:1621 (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 10b9:5247 (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 0c03: 10b9:5237 (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 0601: 10b9:1533 (rev c3)
0000:00:0c.0 0401: 13f6:0111 (rev 10)
0000:00:0c.1 0780: 13f6:0211 (rev 20)
0000:00:0e.0 0200: 1039:0900 (rev 02)
0000:00:0f.0 0101: 10b9:5229 (rev c2)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:00a0 (rev 20)
The X server started with a 800x600 resolution, so I had to run
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 again (after installation, thus) to
select the highest resolution available (1024x768).
I selected a "desktop environment" during installation, and I'm using
Gnome.
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