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[Fred456]

Hello,
I'm currently running aMule-CVS-20061218 (with wxGTK-2.6.3). Basically I've followed the compilation tutorial (http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Compilation_Installation).
My problem is that since I've installed aMule on my pc (running openSuse 10.2 by the way) it freezes/crashes after 2-3 days; it's even worse when other applications are running (gaim, vlc player, Superkarama....) then linux crashes within an hour or so.
Has anyone encountered something similar? Any idea what could cause that?

thanks in advanced for your input

[phoenix]

Linux crashes or aMule crashes?

If Linux crashes, I would recommend you to run memtest to see if you have a problem with your memory chips. Also, take a look at the logs (usually /var/log/* ) to see if there is something unusual.

If aMule crashes, then please, do a detailed report of the crash, and please generate a gdb backtrace so that we can do something:
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Backtraces

Cheers!

[Fred456]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply phoenix.
I was running OpenSuse for a month without any problems and since I've installed aMule the OS crashes when aMule is running. aMule itself doesn't crash but Linux.
I ran memtest and no failures were detected.
Here are the last 4 lines of /var/log/messages before Linux froze:
Dec 24 22:12:19 linuxhost syslog-ng[2952]: STATS: dropped 0
Dec 24 22:12:28 linuxhost zmd: ShutdownManager (WARN): Preparing to sleep...
Dec 24 22:12:28 linuxhost zmd: ShutdownManager (WARN): Going to sleep, waking up at 12/25/2006 21:02:28
Dec 24 23:12:19 linuxhost syslog-ng[2952]: STATS: dropped 0

thanks, and Merry Christmas  

[phoenix]

Originally posted by Fred456
Hi,
Thanks for your reply phoenix.
I was running OpenSuse for a month without any problems and since I've installed aMule the OS crashes when aMule is running. aMule itself doesn't crash but Linux.
I ran memtest and no failures were detected.

What do you mean by a crash? Do you mean an Oops? Or the graphical interface freezes? Even when the gui freezes, sometimes you can go to a console by pressing .

Originally posted by Fred456
Here are the last 4 lines of /var/log/messages before Linux froze:
Dec 24 22:12:19 linuxhost syslog-ng[2952]: STATS: dropped 0
Dec 24 22:12:28 linuxhost zmd: ShutdownManager (WARN): Preparing to sleep...
Dec 24 22:12:28 linuxhost zmd: ShutdownManager (WARN): Going to sleep, waking up at 12/25/2006 21:02:28
Dec 24 23:12:19 linuxhost syslog-ng[2952]: STATS: dropped 0

Hummm, is the time in the log the same as the time of the crash? I would say that someone told linux to go to sleep, and I assure you, it was not aMule Just joking, I know nothig about the shutdown manager, or why it decided to sleep 'till the next day. Maybe he needs some rest?

Originally posted by Fred456
thanks, and Merry Christmas  

Merry Christmas for you too!

[Fred456]

Hi there again,
 

What do you mean by a crash? Do you mean an Oops? Or the graphical interface freezes? Even when the gui freezes, sometimes you can go to a console by pressing .

I really meant crash; Everything just froze, I could still move the mouse cursor but nothing reacted, I couldn't even switch to the console mode

About the ShutdownManager I've disable it

So now I've updated aMule and wxGTK2 and got rid of the OS crash issue but now aMule crashes 30 seconds after launching it  ?(. Crap

----------------------------=| BACKTRACE FOLLOWS: |=----------------------------
Current version is: aMule CVS using wxGTK2 v2.8.0 (Snapshot: Sun Dec 24 07:01:53
 CET 2006)
Running on: Linux 2.6.18.2-34-default i686

[2] ?? in amule [0x8062830]
[3] ?? in amule [0x83aa988]
[4] ?? in [0xb7f9b420]
[5] ?? in amule [0x8267772]
[6] ?? in amule [0x82678d3]
[7] ?? in amule [0x81bd86a]
[8] ?? in amule [0x81bce91]
[9] ?? in amule [0x83a71ab]
[10] ?? in amule [0x83a7823]
[11] ?? in amule [0x83a7bfb]
[12] ?? in amule [0x829db8b]
[13] ?? in amule [0x820e715]
[14] ?? in /opt/gnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 [0xb77f03b6]
[15] g_main_context_dispatch in /opt/gnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb77efde2]
[16] ?? in /opt/gnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 [0xb77f2e1f]
[17] g_main_loop_run in /opt/gnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb77f31c9]
[18] gtk_main in /opt/gnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0xb7bcccd4]
[19] ?? in amule [0x82cf430]
[20] ?? in amule [0x8250c1d]
[21] ?? in amule [0x835168d]
[22] ?? in amule [0x80e886e]
[23] __libc_start_main in /lib/libc.so.6[0xb7567f9c]
[24] ?? in amule [0x805d5b1]


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aborted

any ideas?

thanks again

[phoenix]

Originally posted by Fred456
I really meant crash; Everything just froze, I could still move the mouse cursor but nothing reacted, I couldn't even switch to the console mode

Then it's not a crash. It's a freeze
Seriously, aMule cannot freeze your computer. What is probably happening is that X is freezing, most probably because of your video driver. If you have another computer in your local network, you can probably try to connect via ssh and "killall -9 X", maybe it comes back to life. I had issues like this with the nvidia driver.

Originally posted by Fred456
any ideas?

thanks again

Yes, compile aMule with debug information and post a real gdb backtrace. Here are the instructions:
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Backtraces

Good luck!

[Fred456]

thank you for your time, I'll make the backtrace

update:
amule crash cause found: The option "auto update ip-filter on startup" caused aMule to crash. Once deselected every just works find.