Mandrake 10 is continously freezing...HELP!

[adrianb 0]

Hi,

 

I've installed Mandrake 10 Community Edition. Everything was installed fine and it works perfectly. The only problem is that everything just freezes for a minute or so. Afterwards everything returns working perfectly. This sometimes repeats itself several times! Does anybody know anything i could do pls????

[Dapper Dan 0]

Hmm. Not having this problem on my Community 10. What is your RAM and how big is your swap in comparision to the rest of your Linux partitions? Have you had another distro on this box that worked alright?

[danleff 0]

There have been a couple of issues with Mandrake 10 and system freezes. What you can do, in addition to answering DapperDan's questions, is to post what motherboard/system that you have.

 

Among issues that I found were;

 

1. Bios problems. Having "Plug & Play OS" set to yes in your bios settings.

 

2. Hardware issues, such as an nForce chipset motherboard, or using a USB mouse. If the freeze seems to occur with using the mouse, this may be the issue (yeas, I know, you always use the mouse). Some video cards continue to be an issue.

 

3.Laptop issues. These installs have always been problematic. Is this a laptop install?

4. Is this a dual boot system? As DapperDan stated, has another distro of linux run OK on the system, or are you also using Windows XP?

 

4. Last and not least, the need to have noapic set in Lilo or Grub, whichever is your bootloader.

 

So, give us some more information to work with and we will try to assist!

[adrianb 0]

Hi,

Tx for the help. My specifications are the following:

 

512Mb RAM

CPU P3 1GHz

Motherboard - DFI CA63-SN

GeForce4 TI4200

 

I'm not running any USB devices

I have a dual booting system with windows XP. I'm using lilo as a bootloader.

 

Tx for you help if you need any more info just ask me.

[danleff 0]

...ok, and the answer to DapperDan's question about swap space?

 

Then we will look at lilo.

[adrianb 0]

swap space is 499Mb

[Dapper Dan 0]

RAM and swap look good. Danleff can help more on the compatibility issues with hardware than I can, although you may also want to see if there are too many instances of certain daemons running. This happened to me once with Mdk 9, and caused halting problems. As root go:

 

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And check the usages of running programs. Sometimes, that can cause the type problems you mention. Good Luck!