On Sat February 4 2006 8:23 pm, Claude Jones wrote: > On Saturday 04 February 2006 10:53 am, Claude Jones wrote: > > Installed the new kernel this am, and updated all my modules (fglrx and > > ntfs, plus the vmwareplayer). All seemed well. Returned to the machine > > some time later and it was in screen saver. I have this machine set to > > require a password to exit screensaver. It took the password and the > > desktop opened. Then, I noticed there was no mouse cursor. Looked at the > > CPU activity monitor and it was pegged at 100%. Waited a long while but > > to no avail. Was able to switch to a console with Ctl-Alt-F1 but before I > > could log in, I got a kernel panic and some messages about being unable > > to sync. I did a hard reset and came back up, and then tried a reboot. > > The screen switched to black after a moment, and the machine hung - no > > commands accepted, no activity visible on the machine, nothing - did > > another hard reset. Per an earlier message, I tried upgrading > > module-init-tools from updates-testing. Tried another reboot, but got the > > same result again when I tried a shutdown... For now, I've booted into > > the previous kernel. I've just run yum update on my home machine, the one described above. It found a new fglrx module and replaced the one installed this morning. This has cured the above systems on first check. Was able to reboot and then shutdown normally without a lockup - this is just the first test, but it's looking good. There was a reference in one thread today to fglrx possibly being a problem. Thorsten had commented in a referenced thread that he was on the case, so, if this is the result, thanks! -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
