At 4:37 PM -0500 11/16/05, Deron Meranda wrote: >Within the past couple weeks I have an FC3 system which periodically >locks up hard occasionally. This has happened about four times so >far, and usually happens exactly when I'm clicking and/or dragging on >my Firefox's vertical scroll bar. The system locks really hard; all >activity stops, cursor doesn't move, network is unresposive, and all >control-alt sequences do nothing. > >This system has been very stable until recently, so I am wondering >if it might be related to some recent update. It is running the SMP >kernel 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3smp, a single-chip Xeon with hyperthreading. >If it matters, the mouse is USB with a scrollwheel, but I've not seen >any USB problems before. > >Has anybody seen anything like this; and is there anything I can >do to get more information. Since it happens so infrequently, it's >tough to reproduce. > >BTW, I also have another FC3 system (UP Athlon) which has been >experiencing hard lockups every third or fourth day for the past few >weeks as well (very stable before that), but it usually locks up when >left unattended. If you suspect a recent update, try rebooting with the previous kernel. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
