Mandrake 8.0 crashing

[Mr. Pink]

I'm having a problem in Mandrake 8.0 where intermittantly it will hang when I'm in a window manager. For instance when this first happened I was running KDE and editing some code and had Xmms going. All of a sudden the cursor had this 1 inch flashing horizontal line coming off the side of it and everything screeched to a halt. Well, I shouldn't say halt, more like a crawl. If I hit buttons or tried to switch to a console window it would do it but it would take like 2-3 minutes for the process to register. The cursor would move however (With that flashing line off the side of it).

I thought at first that this was a prob with KDE, so I switched and went to Enlightenment, then the same thing happened when all I had open was Netscape. So I conclude the only common factor is Mandrake as it didn't rely on the Window Manager I was using or applications. Oh also like I said before the problem is intermittent. Last night I it crashed after a few minutes. I rebooted and went fine for the rest of the night (5-6 hours).

Has anyone seen this or know where I should start. The flashing line coming of the cursor is consistant with everycrash. I'll try to get a screenshot of the cursor thing but it'll take some patience on my part. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[bobarian]

The problem with Mandrake is that it installs nearly everything -- and a lot of times there are conflicts. Use ps aux and kill to kill things that you might think are causing the crash. That's really the only advice I can give you, unless someone else knows the answer :rolleyes:

[Mr. Pink]

Yeah, I'll try that. I tried to minimize everything during the install. The only really odd services running that I normally wouldn't are portsentry and another security program I decided to look into sometime. I'll take those off and see if that help as well as anything else I notice. But mainly all I have are ftp, http, the security stuff and kde. We'll see though. Thanks for the input.