Comp Freezes During Remaster

[Ray2047]

Tried twice to make a remaster and both times the computer totally froze up. Mouse stopped responding. i had to type "ctrl+alt sysreqreisub" just to reboot. I was able to make a successful remaster Christmas and there has been no significant changes to the system since then. IIt freezes part way into making a compressed file. first time it stalled at 24%. Second time 8%. Fully updated KDE.

$ df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              40G  3.0G   35G   8% /
/dev/sda6             175G  2.7G  172G   2% /home
/dev/sda7              14G  1.6G   12G  12% /tmp

[Just18]

Are you monitoring temperatures while remastering? .......

[Ray2047]

Are you monitoring temperatures while remastering? .......

No way to do that that I am aware of but looking in BIOS. The computer usually runs 24/7 and I haven't had a heating problem.

[Just18]

Are you monitoring temperatures while remastering? .......

No way to do that that I am aware of but looking in BIOS. The computer usually runs 24/7 and I haven't had a heating problem.

A combination of lm_sensors and Gkrellm would do it.

It is the temp while remastering that *may* be causing a problem as the process puts a lot of strain on resources.

[Leiche]

You can use htop, to see what goes maybe wrong...

[Ray2047]

Before reading these replies I installed Busyhot. It is suposed to be under Monitering but I don't see it. I'll try the other suggestions.

[djohnston]

Before reading these replies I installed Busyhot. It is suposed to be under Monitering but I don't see it. I'll try the other suggestions.

It has a lot of dependencies, including gnome-panel. I'm guessing the display wants to be shown in Gnome's desktop panel. Can you check to see if there's a desktop file for it? Do this from a terminal. You don't need root privileges.

ls /usr/share/applications/busyhot.desktop

If there is a file, can you post the output from this command?

cat /usr/share/applications/busyhot.desktop

[Ray2047]

Djohnston asked:

Can you check to see if there's a desktop file for it [busyhot]?

$ ls /usr/share/applications/busyhot.desktop
ls: cannot access /usr/share/applications/busyhot.desktop: No such file or directory

$ cat /usr/share/applications/busyhot.desktop
cat: /usr/share/applications/busyhot.desktop: No such file or directory

JUst18 suggested:

A combination of lm_sensors and Gkrellm would do it.

don't see a temp reading on Gkrellm. Was I suppose to? Installed IM_Sensors but can't find it.

[Leiche]

Djohnston asked:

Can you check to see if there's a desktop file for it [busyhot]?

$ ls /usr/share/applications/busyhot.desktop
ls: cannot access /usr/share/applications/busyhot.desktop: No such file or directory

$ cat /usr/share/applications/busyhot.desktop
cat: /usr/share/applications/busyhot.desktop: No such file or directory

JUst18 suggested:

A combination of lm_sensors and Gkrellm would do it.

don't see a temp reading on Gkrellm. Was I suppose to? Installed IM_Sensors but can't find it.

What says

Code:

acpi -V

in a terminal?

[djohnston]

JUst18 suggested:

A combination of lm_sensors and Gkrellm would do it.

don't see a temp reading on Gkrellm. Was I suppose to? Installed IM_Sensors but can't find it.

That should be lm_sensors (lowercase L). If you have the package installed, open a terminal, become root, then run this command and follow the prompts.

su -
sensors-detect
exit
exit

[Neal ManBear]

Not Im_Sensors - lm_sensors. Lowercase L not uppercase i.    

[Ray2047]

If you have the package installed, open a terminal, become root, then run this command and follow the prompts.

su -
sensors-detect
exit
exit

And the results:

Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done.
Just press ENTER to continue:

Driver `w83627ehf':
  * ISA bus, address 0x290
    Chip `Winbond W83627DHG-P Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9)

Driver `k10temp' (autoloaded):
  * Chip `AMD Family 10h thermal sensors' (confidence: 9)

Do you want to generate /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors? (YES/no): Yes
Loading sensors modules:
Starting sensord:                                       [  OK  ]
Unloading i2c-dev... OK

[Ray2047]

What says

Code:

acpi -V

in a terminal?

And it says:

# acpi -V
No support for device type: power_supply
No support for device type: power_supply
Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 3
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 3

[Ray2047]

I don't know why but it now works. I just made a successful remaster. Thanks guys for all the replies.

[Ray2047]

Update: Not fixed. it froze about five minutes after I successfully made the remaster. I checked in Bios during reboot and temps for my AMD Athlon were normal, CPU-39°/MB-37°. I had RPM reading on both fans so I assume they are working.