Hi,
I've been using Fedora Core 2 very often and had no problems. Recently, the system started to freeze while I was using the GUI (either Gnome or KDE). When it happens I have to press the reset button (i've tried Ctrl+Alt+F*, Ctrl+Alt+Del, pressing the power button [ATX] but nothing works, I can't even change the NumLock status).
The only critical changes I did: - an up2date (which updated the kernel to 2.6.6-1.435.2.1) - installed the new NVIDIA driver (6106)
In graphical mode the system freezes and doesn't display any message. Recently I was able to see the system freezing in console mode (booted into init 5 and changed to init 3). It displayed an error message like this (i didn't write down all the hexadecimal numbers, but if that's needed I can do it later):
============================ begin ============================ 3jbd CPU: (some hex numbers) EIP: (some hex numbers) Not tainted EIFLAGS: (some hex numbers) (2.6.6-1.435.2.1) EIP is at 0x236b1bb ... CALL TRACE run_timer_softirq+0x10b/0x12a __do_softirq+0x35/0x73 do_softirq+0x46/0x4d ... do_irq+0x15d/0x169 default_idle+0x23/0x26 cpu_idle+0x1f/0x34 start_kernel+0x178/0x17a
CODE: 00 b8 b1 36 02 c0 b1 36 02 c0 b1 36 02 c8 b1 36 02 c8 b1 36
<0> Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt In interrupt handler - not syncing ============================ end ============================
Steps to reproduce:
1. Start the system.
2. After some time (sometimes even during boot, sometimes it takes about 1 hour or more) it crashes.
Things i've already tried: - Uninstall NVIDIA's driver - Downgrade the kernel to the 2.6.5 that comes with Fedora Core 2 CD1 - Reset BIOS values to "Optimal Values" and "Default Values"
I don't think it's a hardware problem since I have win2k installed in the same machine and it doesn't have any problems.
(and please excuse my poor english)
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