Re: System freezes when running matchbox

It very well can be a hardware or kernel problem with VIA C3.
I was hoping that someone else might have seen or experienced
something similar and may have a remedy.

I can ssh in, but when the system freezes, the NIC is locked too.
I can't even ping.

I run matchbox-session, which runs desktop, manager, and panel.
I did not use any configure flag except for --enable-debug.  I was
hoping that matchbox would be writing something to syslog so
at least I can see what it was doing just before lockup, but I learned
that it only means vebose messages at start up.

Matthew Allum wrote:

>Hi;
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>on Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 05:19:08PM -0500, Dzuy Nguyen wrote:
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>>I'm planning to use matchbox for my embedded system.  I've got
>>libmatchbox 1.7, desktop 0.9.1, window manager 0.9.5 and panel
>>0.9.2.  It works fine on my Pentium III system with Fedora Core3.
>>However, on my VIA C3 Nehmiah with Fedora Core 3, it freezes
>>the system in about one hour time.  I eliminated all other applications
>>on the system, just run matchbox and the system would lock up in
>>one hour.
>>
>>I thought it might be a hardware issue, but the same system runs fine
>>for days with X (XFree85 4.5) alone.  I also try other window manager
>>such as twm and it works fine.
>>
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>It really difficult to know what is happening here. I never seen this
>happen myself nor heard of a similar situation. It very unlikely for a
>user space program to lock the entire system ( Im assuming you cant ssh
>in? ).
>
>Are you running just matchbox window manager ? or other matchbox apps
>? What configure flags did you use ? 
> 
>  -- Matthew
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