Help! Linux freezes for a while and then continues

[Themuppeteer]

Hello,

I have this problem that my linux system just freezes for a while and then continues. The freezes happen randomly. Its very annoying. I don't use KDE or Gnome, just plain X.
I have a flash disk, and thats also part of my misery.
When I want to format my flash,

mke2fs /dev/nftla
ithangs here for a while, then

it continues until:

...
writing inode tables: done
writing superblocks and filesystem accouting information:

and here it hangs. Its just frozen. Power off.
My flash is not broken as I already tried 3 different flash disks. Somethimes I can mount it, somthimes I can't. Its like it has a life of his own..

All these freezing problems started from after I installed snmpd on my machine. Could that be the cause?
Or could there be a bug in the drivers for the flash in the kernel? When I boot me kernel that doesn't have flash support, I don't have any problems. In fact,I also think that I don't have any problems as long as I don't try to mount the flash...somethimes it hangs after I type 'mount /dev/nftla /flash' and then after 30 seconds or so it says that I have to specify the file system type. While I'm sure its ext2,I formatted it that way.
Someone over here told me it could be network related.
I don't know..

Any clues ??

thnx

Greetz,

themuppeteer@hotmail.com

http://www.themuppeteer.tk

Don't eat yellow snow...

 

[Themuppeteer]

The latest info on the subject:

it seems that I also get my freezing without XFree86 running. Greetz,

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Don't eat yellow snow...and don't mess with your fstab!