On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:09:02PM -0500, David Curry wrote: > I downloaded the 2.6.10-1.14_FC2 kernel today and promptly rebooted to > give it a spin. > > My system froze up fairly quickly and then repeated that performance on > reboot. The only way I was able to recover control of the system in > both instances was through pushing Reset on the box. > > On the first occurence, I had stepped away from the machine for several > minutes and returned to discover a screensaver pattern on the screen > with system completely unresponsive to mouse and keyboard. > > On the second occurence, I stepped away for a few minutes and returned > to find a dialogue box displayed on the desktop advising that the volume > control applet had died suddenly and asking if I wanted to restart it. > I selected "No". Within seconds the Gnome panel at the bottom of the > screen disappeared and the system was unresponsive to mouse and keyboard. > > Is anyone else experiencing this system behavior with the new kernel? Did you try the .13 one too ? I'm curious if this is something introduced by the exec-shield fixes. Dave
