[ltp] Crash on resume

[Richard Neill]

Thanks for that. I wish I had some ideas! Can anyone at least rule out 
any of the ideas below? Otherwise, I'll upgrade to Mdk 8.0 when it comes 
out in a week or 2. That said, I've had this problem, with varying 
degrees of frequency with 8.0 and 8.1.

Richard



Mark Beierl wrote:
> I hate to say it, but I had the same problem and never figured out what 
> it was - worst part is that it did get worse (more frequent).  I 
> switched to RH 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-3) and miraculously I have not had 
> that problem since.  All the best!
> 
> Regards,
> Mark Beierl
> 
> Richard Neill wrote:
> 
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I wonder if anyone can help with this. I'm using an A22p, with 
>> Mandrake 8.2 I have it set to suspend (to RAM, not hibernate) after 
>> about 45 minutes. (The Xscreensaver package usually kicks in first 
>> after 20 min).
>>
>> However, one time in 5 (or so), the machine won't wake from suspend. I 
>> press the "Fn" key, and the cdrom "gronks", the display comes back on, 
>> showing a distorted image of what was there before suspend, and it 
>> then freezes. The HDD doesn't spin up, and the keyboard is not 
>> responsive (except for some bios things like Fn-PgUp for the 
>> thinklight and screen brightness etc). I have to kill it with the 
>> power switch.
>>
>> This used to happen about once a month, but it now seems much more 
>> frequent - every few days (and of course, this is when I most need 
>> stablility to write my thesis!) Any ideas what's happening?
>>
>> 1)What might be causing the problem? I have a few ideas - maybe these 
>> are all spurious:
>>
>>     - 1) The HDD has a fault - something causes it not to spin back
>>         up
>>
>>     - 2) It's not really a linux crash, but a hard-lock-up of X ?
>>     (I'm using XF86-4.20)
>>
>>     - 3) Modem Driver (Lucent)
>>
>>     -4) Some application is trying to use the network which it can't
>>      access. (Mozilla?) [I have had the problem whether I use no
>>     network, dhcp network or 'regular' network]
>>
>>     -5) Xscreensaver package - some of the screensavers (OpenGL
>>      ones??) which normally work fine may crash on suspend/resume?
>>
>>     -6) IBM BIOS is at fault
>>
>> 2)Is there anything I can do to log where it goes wrong? It's an 
>> intermittent fault - I can't reproduce it at will
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
>> Richard
>>
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