On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 00:20 -0500, David Curry wrote: > Perhaps a pattern is beginning to emerge on the system freezeups I am > experiencing with the 1.14FC2 kernel. > > Again, I was away from the system when it froze up and it was pretty > much idling. Since the chron log does not include an entry for 22:01 > hours, I infer that the system locked up sometime between 21:01:00 and > 22:01:00 hours. Mail log has no entries between 7:30:41 hours and > reboot at 22:29:13 hours. > > The system log is interesting. ALL entries for the 21st hour of the day > fall within a five minute interval. Entries also appear related to > sound and a cd-rom drive. As noted in earlier messages, gnome > applications may very well be involved too. Gnome-cd was in use playing > a music cd right before I stepped away from the system and gnome-cd has > exhibited inconsistent compliance with Gnome CD & DVD Preference settings. > > Feb 28 21:34:01 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command > for sound_slot_1 > Feb 28 21:38:06 localhost kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { > DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > Feb 28 21:38:06 localhost kernel: hdc: command error: error=0x50 > Feb 28 21:38:06 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was 100 > Feb 28 21:38:06 localhost kernel: ATAPI device hdc: > Feb 28 21:38:06 localhost kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense > key=0x05) > Feb 28 21:38:06 localhost kernel: Illegal mode for this track or > incompatible medium -- (asc=0x64, ascq=0x00) > Feb 28 21:38:06 localhost kernel: The failed "Read 10" packet command > was: > Feb 28 21:38:06 localhost kernel: "28 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 01 00 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 " > Feb 28 21:38:06 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64 > Feb 28 21:38:06 localhost kernel: isofs_fill_super: bread failed, > dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 > > I also saw the mobprobe error re - sound_slot_1 in the system log around > the time of the last system freeze. > > It seems to me that there is a bug here somewhere, but in which package > or packages? > > Thoughts anyone. ---- probably one of the screensavers - the GL screensavers have been a problem for some - try just going to blank screen instead and see if that lightens things Craig