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    Frequent total system freezes on T60 since upgrade to Hardy

    Since I upgraded to Hardy, I've been experiencing frequent total system freezes. At this point only my mute and unmute buttons appears to work and I have to hard boot my computer in order to restart. There appears to be no errors reported in my syslog.

    Just so you know, I use a Thinkpad T60 that previously worked perfectly on Gutsy (never had freezes before).

    These freezes tend to happen when I don't touch the computer for a while (e.g. when I'm watching a movie fullscreen or when I go away and the screensaver is on). However, they don't occur 100% of the time when I'm away (e.g. two nights ago my computer still was working when I woke, but this morning it was frozen).

    Ideas?

    Update: Since I switched my screensaver from a blank screen to something active, I no longer get freezes overnight. However, my computer still does periodically freeze when watching a video fullscreen.
    Last edited by Poilar; May 20th, 2008 at 08:13 PM. Reason: More information

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    Re: Frequent total system freezes on T60 since upgrade to Hardy

    Quote Originally Posted by Poilar View Post
    Since I upgraded to Hardy, I've been experiencing frequent total system freezes. At this point only my mute and unmute buttons appears to work and I have to hard boot my computer in order to restart. There appears to be no errors reported in my syslog.

    Just so you know, I use a Thinkpad T60 that previously worked perfectly on Gutsy (never had freezes before).

    These freezes tend to happen when I don't touch the computer for a while (e.g. when I'm watching a movie fullscreen or when I go away and the screensaver is on). However, they don't occur 100% of the time when I'm away (e.g. two nights ago my computer still was working when I woke, but this morning it was frozen).

    Ideas?
    Any log files to share? I'm assuming at that point you have to do a power cycle and reboot. I don't know what's inside a Thinkpad T60. Maybe a little rundown on video, cpu, and things. How about 'fdisk' output...okay I see no syslog errors. Does 'dmegs' give up anything?

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    Re: Frequent total system freezes on T60 since upgrade to Hardy

    I don't believe there are any errors in dmesg, though I'm a little less clear as to what exactly dmesg contains. This creates a new file each boot, right? So, I need to look at dmesg.0 to see what happened before it crashed? There's nothing unusual at the end of the file.

    Below are some maybe relevant outputs:

    fdisk output is as follows:

    Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0xcccdcccd

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 * 1 4830 38796943+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda2 6481 7296 6554520 12 Compaq diagnostics
    Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
    /dev/sda3 4831 6480 13253625 5 Extended
    /dev/sda5 4831 6219 11157111 83 Linux
    /dev/sda6 6220 6480 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris

    Partition table entries are not in disk order

    Here's the output of lshw -short so you can see my hardware:

    H/W path Device Class Description
    ================================================== ========
    system 1951WC4
    /0 bus 1951WC4
    /0/0 memory 144KiB BIOS
    /0/6 processor Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2
    /0/6/a memory 64KiB L1 cache
    /0/6/c memory 2MiB L2 cache
    /0/6/0.1 processor Logical CPU
    /0/6/0.2 processor Logical CPU
    /0/b memory 64KiB L1 cache
    /0/29 memory 1GiB System Memory
    /0/29/0 memory 512MiB SODIMM Synchronous
    /0/29/1 memory 512MiB SODIMM Synchronous
    /0/1 processor
    /0/1/0.1 processor Logical CPU
    /0/1/0.2 processor Logical CPU
    /0/100 bridge Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML a
    /0/100/2 display Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Expr
    /0/100/2.1 display Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML
    /0/100/1b multimedia 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definit
    /0/100/1c bridge 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
    /0/100/1c/0 eth0 network 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controlle
    /0/100/1c.1 bridge 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
    /0/100/1c.1/0 wmaster0 network PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Conn
    /0/100/1c.2 bridge 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
    /0/100/1c.3 bridge 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
    /0/100/1d bus 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Con
    /0/100/1d.1 bus 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Con
    /0/100/1d.2 bus 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Con
    /0/100/1d.3 bus 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Con
    /0/100/1d.7 bus 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Co
    /0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
    /0/100/1e/0 bridge PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controlle
    /0/100/1f bridge 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface B
    /0/100/1f.1 scsi4 storage 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controll
    /0/100/1f.1/0.0.0 /dev/cdrom disk DVDRAM GSA-4083N
    /0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA A
    /0/100/1f.2/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 60GB HTS541060G9SA00
    /0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 36GiB Windows NTFS volume
    /0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 6400MiB Windows FAT volume
    /0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 12GiB Extended partition


    /0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/3/5 /dev/sda5 volume 10GiB Linux filesystem partition
    /0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/3/6 /dev/sda6 volume 2047MiB Linux swap / Solaris part
    /0/100/1f.3 bus 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Contro


    Thanks!

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    Re: Frequent total system freezes on T60 since upgrade to Hardy

    I read someone had freezes while on battery , another while using multi-bay.
    Your running on AC when this happens, correct?

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    Re: Frequent total system freezes on T60 since upgrade to Hardy

    Yeah, running on AC when this happens.

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