Mandrake 9.1 GUI Problems
I've experienced a problem that is rather strange. I'll try to describe it as best as I can. It's happened twice so far with several weeks to a month between them. It's usually after the system has been left idle for a while but not consistant.
When I move the mouse and the monitor turns back on, I can not access any programs especially any that are run as root. Konqueror, Mandrake Control Center and such. When I click on them it gives me the watch for a mouse pointer for a while then it goes away with the app appearing to die.
The desktop icons are all gone. Floppy, CD, the second data drive and any documents that should be there. All gone. This happened both times.
This time it was a bit worse. The GUI crashed. It tried to restart and gets to initializing services and hangs a bit then goes to a blue screen and sits there. It tries to restart after a while but stops in the same place. I managed to get it to another screen like command line, ctrl +alt+F* keys, but I could not read anything. It was like garbage. I blindly logged in as root and typed in shutdown command. It did shutdown and reboot.
When the system came up it did not report any errors at all. I could not read anything during the shutdown. Sorry.
I did notice the first time it did this that during the shutdown it said some systems were not mounted. I did not understand why they were not. I have never unmounted any hard drive.
If I recall correctly I am using ext3 file system. I have a root partition, a swap partition and a /usr partition if that helps.
It return to normal after I reboot the system. No problems. Everything seems to work fine.
Any body ran into this or have any commands that I can run if it happens again and I can get a terminal to work?
Any ideas at all. mdwatts, help out here if you can. This is weird. It's 'weirder' than me.
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Oh, if you need more info let me know. I'll post what you need just let me know how to get it. Really bad cloud here so I may be in the dark for a while if the lights go out. I'll be back though.
I headed that one off at the pass
I did a post on that one. I do have a NVIDIA video card. The driver seems to be working fine. I get the NVIDIA screen when x starts.
I did notice one thing though. This may have nothing to do with anything but. When I goto logout, it flashes the text login then goes right back into x. If I go right back to logout, of x, it goes to the screen where I can choose reboot, halt etc. Now that I think about it, this weird thing happens after I logout which is rare. I change desktops sometimes.
I did find some info with google. No fixes though. I just got through cleaning my rifle, maybe that will fix it. Hear that puter, bullet and brain. he he he he.
You keep answering my dumb question though. OK! I need lots of training on this thing so I can help too.
Any ideas? Do I still need to change the module file? What is agpgart? I'm assuming something to do with video. Want me to shutdown this rig and see what errors it generates?
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Ooooops. Too quick on the conclusion
I found out why there was no error. The clock screwed up AGAIN. :mad: I was looking at the wrong time stamp.
I still get the agpgart error. I went and read the manual and added some stuff to the XF86Config-4 file, had to use 'vi' to fix the thing then. Here's the error:
Sep 3 22:21:32 smoker kernel: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003
Sep 3 22:21:33 smoker postfix: postalias: warning: My hostname smoker is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf
Sep 3 22:21:33 smoker postfix: postalias: fatal: config variable inet_interfaces: host not found: smoker
Sep 3 22:21:33 smoker kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
Sep 3 22:21:33 smoker kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
Sep 3 22:21:33 smoker kernel: agpgart: unsupported bridge
Sep 3 22:21:33 smoker kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found.
Sep 3 22:21:33 smoker insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o.gz: init_module: No such device
Sep 3 22:21:33 smoker insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
Sep 3 22:21:33 smoker modprobe: modprobe: insmod agpgart failed
Sep 3 22:21:33 smoker kernel: 0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table
Sep 3 22:21:33 smoker kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Here's dmesg:
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: unsupported bridge
agpgart: no supported devices found.
0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
I went and loaded the agpgart driver from NVIDIA. No help. I'm going to do some more reading. G/L was not much help either.
Anybody got any more ideas? :confused: :confused: :confused:
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