[plug] Weird Linux Problems

[Alexander Hartner]

Are you able to run top, PS etc yet.

Tim White <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:

>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
>
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