On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:36:36PM -0500, David Curry wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > >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 > > > > > > > NO. I wasn't aware that there as a .13 kernel, Dave. I moved from .12 > to .14 when the up2date icon advised that non-kernel updates were > available and learned that .14 had been released. It was in the updates-testing pool only. http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/2/i386/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.13_FC2.i686.rpm If you could give that a try and find out if it also has problems, that would narrow it down a little. Dave
