On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Bob St John wrote: > Folks, > > I have an intermittent (but frequent) problem with FC6. At first I > thought it was a hardware problem, but now I don't think it is. > > This is a dual boot system. Windows XP does not crash at all, but FC6 > crashes frequently. > > uname -a output: Linux Linux 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 > 14:39:22 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Other facts: > - Memtest completes multiple passes without detecting any problems > - Both FC6 and WinXP are on the same hard disk (and since WinXP works > fine I don't think it's a disk or disk controller problem.) > - Same logic as above for the power supply. > - Logging in text mode causes no problems; logging in with either GNOME > or KDE crashes the system 99% of the time after a short period of time. > - The other 1% of the time FC6 seems stable for at least several hours. > In fact earlier this week it was up for 3 or 4 days with relatively > heavy usage with no problems. > - Periodically, in GNOME, straight but zig-zagged brown lines appear on > the display. > - As root, I can bring up the KDE environment but not the GNOME > environment. As other users I can bring up both GNOME and KDE. > - The crashes happen most frequently when I'm using Evolution, but since > I use that more than anything else this may not be very indicative. > - When crashes occur the display freezes but the mouse moves freely. > - When crashes occur the only thing I can do is physically power off the > machine. When I turn it back on it boots quickly with only this > indication of errors: "usb 1-3: cannot allocate device 2 error -110" or > something close to that. > - I don't know too much about Linux, but I see no error messages from > dmesg or in /var/log/messages > - Thinking that this has something to do with X11, I have deleted the > xorg.conf file and rebuilt it with system-config-display (several > times.) > > So I'm at a loss at resolving this problem. Any suggestions? > > Thanks . . . I have the same problem but I haven't investigated it yet. I think the reason for this freeze may be the ATI proprietary drivers because I've had similar problems in the past and moving to a new version of the fglrx driver stabilizes the system. Since I use drivers packed from Livna and I'm don't know what's your graphics card - please share this info with us. I'll further investigate it today. > > Bob St. John -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) PGP ID: 7AE45436 PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 5436
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