Lockups

[Eric]

In my experience, that sounds like a memory leak.

Doesn't lock up unless Conky is running makes me think this way:

- 37-59C is nowhere near CPU overheat, but doesn't mean that nothing else
is overheating - check your other sensors, if there are any.

- Move/rename your conky config and put in the base one(to eliminate the
possibility that your config added it). Run that for a couple hours to make
sure.

- Update or install a different(older?) version of Conky, to see if it's
part of Conky itself.

Hopefully, file a bug report to say what it was and what "fixed" it.


On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:41 PM, gord campbell <gordc2005 at velcom.ca> wrote:

> One can never be certain about possible hardware issues. There could
> always be a hardware problem which didn't affect Ubuntu 10.10, Mint 12
> or Mint 13, but Ubuntu 12.10 runs afoul of it. It seems like a long
> shot.
>
> My system: Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P motherboard, Phenom II X2 550 CPU, 4
> GB of 1333 MHz memory (2 sticks of 2 GB), MSI 9400 GT video, WD Black
> 640 GB SATA hard drive, IDE DVD-writer, SBx00 Azalia sound onboard,
> AR2413/AR2414 PCI Wireless Network Adapter.
>
> Here's something odd: sudo lshw -html put this in red:
> id:             serial
> description:    SMBus
> product:        SBx00 SMBus Controller
> vendor:         Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)
> physical id:    14
> bus info:       pci at 0000:00:14.0
> version:        3c
> width:  32 bits
> clock:  66MHz
> capabilities:   ht cap_list
> configuration:  latency =       0
>
> When I run my Conky script to display temperatures (39, 37, 59 are
> typical for CPU, hard drive and video card) it locks up in 30 to 90
> minutes. When I don't run Conky, I have only seen one lockup, and I have
> run for 14 hours a few times. (My Evolution email is only installed in
> Mint 13, so I need to reboot into it....)
>
> I built the system in the summer of 2009, and it still qualifies as a
> "high performance" computer, especially compared to some of the dreck
> people try to run Ubuntu on. I use Cinelerra for video editing, and I'm
> completely satisfied with the performance of the hardware and software.
>
> BTW, I think I have found the solution to the "nvidia current" problem,
> but I have not tried it.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 12:03 +0000, ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com
> wrote:
> > > It runs OK until I install Nvidia Current. Oh, except for the
> > random,
> > > total system lockups, which are absolutely not caused by hardware or
> > > overheating. I dual boot Mint 13 (64-bit with Cinnamon) and Mint has
> > > never crashed in the five months it has been installed. Nor did
> > Ubuntu
> > > 10.10 before it.
> >
> > Are you sure those are really not from hardware issues? Lockups are
> > very unfrequently caused by software (unless of course it's unstable
> > kernel drivers).
> >
> > I'd be interested to know about it. What drivers or applications could
> > be causing these lockups? Please try to file a bug in Launchpad if you
> > can figure out what's breaking :)
>
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