screensaver freezes system totally

[pete]

On 10/07/10 11:53, j.e.aneiros wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
> Perhaps you could enable SSH (sudo aptitude install openssh-server) and
> ssh into the machine to see what's happening when the system freezes again.
>
> --aneiros
>
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:45 AM, pete <peter.smout at o2.co.uk
> <mailto:peter.smout at o2.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/07/10 14:56, A. Kromic wrote:
>      > On 05/07/10 13:25, pete wrote:
>      >> ...
>      >>
>      >> Namely when the screen-saver has been running for about 20mins it
>      >> freezes completely, and becomes totally unresponsive, only thing
>     left is
>      >> a hard reset!
>      >>
>      >> ...
>      >>
>      >
>      > I have experienced a similar problem, it's 10.04 AMD64, an I use
>     Compiz
>      > and screensaver was 3D; however, my GPU is Intel's. It doesn't really
>      > lock the whole system, just the screen, and even like that, windows
>      > temporarily showed when I used Alt+Tab. They wouldn't stay, but
>     it was
>      > enough to bring up a terminal window and blindly pkill the
>     screensaver...
>      >
>      > Best regards,
>      > A. Kromic
>      >
>     Hi,
>
>     This problem has reared it head again, his machine only had 'wobbly
>     windows' activated. good news this time i was there to check the logs!
>
>     the system log said it was running 'cron' as root then it stated that
>     'no one cares, try booting without irq module' prior to freeze up.
>
>     All of which means nothing except that we do care! a brief bit of
>     googleing only digs up posts from 2001 / 2002 and are far to technical
>     for me to follow!
>
>     so my question is this why has this old (?) problem resurfaced now and
>     only on his machine, would following such an outdated solution work on
>     newer versions?
>
>     any help at all we would be grateful!
>
>     Pete
>
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hi aneirous,

run the command yuo suggested on my machine (my understanding is that I 
can remotely access his machine?) as I have never ssh'd before this is 
all new to me and would appreciate some guidance (just off to google 
now) if you can provide any guidance at all I would appreciate it, you 
can contact me off list if you prefer to prevent this list becoming 
clogged with my learning needs!

Many thanks

Pete