On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 06:02 -0400, John wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf > Of Robert Spangler > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 9:19 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos Freezing > > On Thursday 15 May 2008 21:51, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > > Hi Robert, > > > > Robert Spangler wrote: > > > For some reason at different times Centos will freeze and not allow > > me > to do anything. This doesn't happen while I'm working on the > > system but > after I have locked my session and then return. It > > could goes days > without a lockup and then the next time I try to log in > it'll be frozen. > > > > > > I would like to know if anyone else has seen this or knows of a fix > > or > where I could start to look to find out if there is a process or > > > something causing this. > > > > Not me, have not had such an issue. make sure you are completely > > yum-updated for a start. > > Always. Done nightly. :) > > > > I normally have the same programs running so I don't think it could > > be > caused by me starting and then leaving something new running. > > > > I guess the reason why no one has replied to your post so far is that > > its hard to work out or even think about such issues without some more > context. > > Do you have proprietary drivers installed for anything ? ndiswrapper > > for wifi ? grfx drivers for nvidia or ati ? Could there be a network > issue ? > > Only thing I'm running that isn't in the repo's is the nVidia driver for my > Geforce FX550. > > Oh, Thnx for the reply!! > > Regards > Robert > ---------------------------------------- > > Please try to update your nVidia Driver to the current level version and see > if that solves your problem. Make sure you are using the X config file that > is generated by the driver and do not add anything to it (as in options). > Some options if your mother board can not handle or support it, it will > freeze lockup etc. > > Let me Know how it goes.. > > John Stanley I had a similar situation on CentOS 4.x and on 5.0, different boxes. In both cases it was resolved by replacing a bad stick of RAM. If the box can be off line I would suggest a 24 hour run of memtest. On my systems it only occurred with the GUI running. Cheers, B.J. CentOS 5.1, Linux 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 athlon 07:28:37 up 21:02, 0 users, load average: 0.30, 0.10, 0.02