topic title: antiX-14R-alpha2 available
Posts: 1,062
Dave
Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#46
james c wrote:Another computer,another report.

Posting this from MX-14.2 non-pae. AntiX 14R a2 successfully boots but the cpu is continually maxed out at 100%,even idling at the desktop. Basically unusable. MX-14.2 idles at 2%.
Would you mind trying this out to verify if this is the same bug that rocky is /was experiencing?

Boot live cd (or install if you were daring enough at 100% cpu) into init level 3 (At the grub line at" 3" without the" )
log in as root ( live cd user root password root )
type: cd /usr/local/bin (press enter)
type: mv desktop-session desktop-session.bk (press enter)
type: wget
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://antix.daveserver.info/repo/desktop-session"
linktext was:"http://antix.daveserver.info/repo/desktop-session"
====================================
(press enter)
type: chmod 755 desktop-session (press enter)
type: init 5 (press enter)

and see what happens... hopefully all will be ok.
Posts: 94
james c
Joined: 23 Apr 2014
#47
Dave wrote:
james c wrote:Another computer,another report.

Posting this from MX-14.2 non-pae. AntiX 14R a2 successfully boots but the cpu is continually maxed out at 100%,even idling at the desktop. Basically unusable. MX-14.2 idles at 2%.
Would you mind trying this out to verify if this is the same bug that rocky is /was experiencing?

Boot live cd (or install if you were daring enough at 100% cpu) into init level 3 (At the grub line at" 3" without the" )
log in as root ( live cd user root password root )
type: cd /usr/local/bin (press enter)
type: mv desktop-session desktop-session.bk (press enter)
type: wget
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://antix.daveserver.info/repo/desktop-session"
linktext was:"http://antix.daveserver.info/repo/desktop-session"
====================================
(press enter)
type: chmod 755 desktop-session (press enter)
type: init 5 (press enter)

and see what happens... hopefully all will be ok.
And the results are..............

Wait for it........

Not good. Did momentarily drop to 93% but was mainly stuck at 100%.

Turned Conky off and according to Htop usage is fluctuating between 40% and 100% at idle.Will briefly drop into the 30's for a second before jumping higher.
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Dave
Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#48
hmm must be a different problem than what rocky had... what does htop show as eating the cpu?
Posts: 94
james c
Joined: 23 Apr 2014
#49
Was trying to get a screenshot of Htop but it's still unusable.Even Htop is distorted.

Biggest users appear to be

roxterm -e htop, rox --pinboard=an and icewm.

Just switched to JWM....cpu usage is still high too.
Posts: 1,062
Dave
Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#50
maybe try changing the desktop to space-* or a vanilla window manager?
By the looks of it the rox pinboard is causing the issue... not sure why that would be though
Posts: 94
james c
Joined: 23 Apr 2014
#51
Just rebooted....trying JWM/Space. Damn, idle has settled down to 4%. __{{emoticon}}__

No icons or stuff but cpu is calmed down.
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james c
Joined: 23 Apr 2014
#52
Launched Htop,which is uses ROXTerm, cpu shot up and computer froze up.Dead keyboard and mouse.Hard reboot.
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Dave
Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#53
OK I adjusted one thing in desktop-session that makes rox act more like space... could you try the same procedure as above?

Scratch that... something else must be up if just starting roxterm causes it to shoot up.

What if you try urxvt-terminal?
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james c
Joined: 23 Apr 2014
#54
Time to go cook anyway.Need a break. __{{emoticon}}__

More later.
Posts: 94
james c
Joined: 23 Apr 2014
#55
Well, maybe one more quick test. Rebooted back to JWM/Space. CPU good. Launched Roxterm (no Htop) ....cpu still 4%.
Entered Htop in Roxterm....... cpu jumped immediately up to 100%.

Closed Roxterm/Htop. Cpu staying about 80$ or higher.

Switched to Fluxbox....... cpu still around 80%.

Really break time now.
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shadow
Joined: 25 Dec 2013
#56
Just for your information..I have been trying out alpha2 and almost everything has worked perfect for me... i tried all the different desktops. and the only fault / problem i came upon was WMii on 3 attempts it has pretty much faild to do anything... 1 time everything seemed like it was cycling flashing on and off conky and desktop, another sort of semi loaded and the Conky was unreadable and I had no fuctions at all, as so on...Flux box and all others worked great..
Posts: 94
james c
Joined: 23 Apr 2014
#57
Just to make sure there was no hardware issues contributing to the runaway cpu problem I've been running a Puppy live cd for a couple of hours.Hardware is apparently ok.

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-Computer-
Processor        : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Memory        : 482MB (240MB used)
Operating System        : Puppy Linux 0.00
User Name        : root (root)
Date/Time        : Thu 03 Jul 2014 11:15:51 PM CDT
-Misc-
Uptime        : 2 hours, 23 minutes
Load Average        : 0.07, 0.20, 0.15
Back to some AntiX testing tomorrow.
Posts: 1,445
skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#58
1 time everything seemed like it was cycling flashing on and off conky and desktop, another sort of semi loaded
sounds familiar (as described in my earlier post) and reading this reminds me to mention (helpful toward debugging?) that during these xsession hiccups, iceWM panel displays a flashing taskbar button for the conky process.
Posts: 2,238
dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#59
FYI, boots fine on the acer 720p chromebook...no touchpad though.
Posts: 2,238
dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#60
shutdown and reboot while running liveUSB do not actually shutdown and reboot with this system (inxi info from MX, symptom is in antix 14R alpha 2 running live). System stops doing anything with the text"Ready to Reboot" or"ready to shutdown" depending on the scenario. Persistence doesn't matter. I have not installed yet.

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dolphin@mx1:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.10.2 Distro: MX-14.1.2 Symbiosis 23 June 2014 
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion dm4 Notebook PC v: 0587110002242B10000022100
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 146A v: 58.28
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: F.26 date: 02/14/2011
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5 M 460 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1199 MHz 2: 1199 MHz 3: 1199 MHz 4: 1199 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: X.Org 1.12.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
           GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5
Audio:     Card Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio 
           driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae
Network:   Card-1: Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 [Kilmer Peak]
           driver: iwlwifi
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:23:15:7b:a8:14
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
           driver: r8169
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 64:31:50:6d:81:b4
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 320.1GB (27.7% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD3200BPVT size: 320.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 15G used: 3.5G (26%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda8 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0C mobo: 42.0C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 162 Uptime: 1 min Memory: 264.3/7906.6MB 
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.28 
dolphin@mx1:~
$

In previous versions of antix the default icewm conky had a config item called
own_window_type override.

defined in the icewm-conkyrc file. This is may be related to the flashing conky in the toolbar.

changing desktops while conky is operating in icewm leads to the problem that spacefm icons don't always show up. This is an old problem. No problem so far with fluxbox, although I can't rule it out either. rox pinboard works fine as far as I can tell.

what is the difference between update application menu and update global application menu?