Craig White wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 00:20 -0500, David Curry wrote:Thanks for the suggestion, Craig. I switched to blank screen for several hours without having any crashes. Then I picked "Fontglide" as the sole screensaver pattern to use after checking the pattern of each screensaver available for selection. The system has not frozen up since acting on your suggestion.
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
In checking the screensaver patterns, I did not find any that approximated what I saw on frozen screens. However, there were a half dozen or so screensaver selections that offered no test patterns. Thus, I suspect it is one of those half dozen or screensaver files that does not play nice with kernel-2.6.10-1.14_FC2.
