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Lately I occasionally encounter system freeze-ups and the only solution is to power-off the PC (with the power button). Is there any log that can be used to pinpoint the source of the problem? After one of those freeze-ups I booted to another distro and looked through /var/log on LL partition but couldn't find anything unusual in any of the log files.

I suspect the freeze-ups might be related to my graphics card and for now I settled on the following setup, which is stable most of the time:

Code:
mtrx@lite:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu

DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04

DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty

DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Lite 2.2"

mtrx@lite:~$ uname -r

3.18.0-linuxlite

mtrx@lite:~$ inxi -Gxx

Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0421

           Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 drivers: nvidia,nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)

           Resolution: 1680x1050@60.0hz

           GLX Renderer: GeForce 8500 GT/PCIe/SSE2

           GLX Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.76 Direct Rendering: Yes

Thought I was alone , with the softwares or apps added or removed . I didn t minded yet , but not alone .

& this time I haven t installed xfce 4.12 , I thought it was because of that earlier as it kept freezing once or twice a day after installing xfce 4.12 , but it s doing it on xfce 4.11 from beta 2.2 install

anyone has this issue also !

Surf thru

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linux+freeze+t...shoot&t=lm

a DDG search for "linux freeze troubleshoot".

Sheng-Chieh

p.s. Sorry I'm late - my computer had problem w/ network.

If it was me. I'd roll with the vesa driver 1st to see if freezes went away.
Like I did with testing today.

http://antix.freeforums.org/viewtopic.ph...5&start=30

Then move on to installing proprietary drivers for my video card/chip.
Posting from the laptop in that thread as I reload backed up data through usb 1.1.
I know on some of my boxes. The nouveau driver and newer kernels don't play well with the newer xorg. Mine would not freeze as much as scramble the whole screen. So I made my own
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to run till I got the proprietary nvidia driver for my desktop.
My pastebin file I keep handy now.
http://pastebin.com/J7U0Hizw

Different distro, different problem, different hardware. So that xorg.conf is my personal.
Use at your own risk. If not sure. Don't use it.

Thanks for all suggestions. It's too bad there is no way to troubleshoot this kind of problem to get some clear idea of what's wrong. Testing different combinations of kernels and GPU drivers is time consuming and inefficient.

In my case, I suspect some updates to Xorg around December messed things up, because I had been running LL since June until the end of last year without any problems using just default Nouveau driver and kernel 3.13.0-24-generic. My latest stable setup is as follows:

kernel 3.13.0-45-generic (latest Xubuntu default)
nvidia 340.76

Maybe the solution is to upgrade to LL2.4 and see all the problems w/ LL2.2 washed away. If you think you will upgrade, now is the time to do it.

Sheng-Chieh

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