[plug] Weird Linux Problems

[Tim White]

I believe it is caused by rtkit, which tries to make pulseaudio run with 
realtime priorities.

Have no disabled rtkit to see what happens.

Still no idea why the dns lookup came back reversed.

Tim

On 05/11/11 11:24, Tim White wrote:
> I'm trying to remotely diagnose a linux machine that is having some 
> odd problems. Things like top and ps just hang part way through a 
> listing. Trying to do dmesg to the terminal hangs, but dmesg to a file 
> doesn't.
>
> It's recently had a memory upgrade from 1Gb to 4Gb, so eventually I 
> want to run memtest on it (but being remote, can't do that atm). It's 
> running Ubuntu 11.10.
>
> I'm guessing it must be some hardware driver issue, but can't work out 
> which one yet (lsmod even hangs).
>
> The last odd thing that happened, is a dns lookup returned the ip 
> address in reverse! But this I believe was the adsl modem doing it, 
> anyone heard of that happening? (Lookup for purewhite.id.au returned 
> 10.45.41.175 instead of 175.41.45.10)
>
> Any hints on what might be causing these hangs?
>
> Tim