On June 18, 2007 12:58:33 Jeffrey Ross wrote: > > My Fedora 7 system is running well, except for the nasty habit of > > freezing two or three times per day when I am working. First: all > > windows stop responding to the mouse and key board, then soon after, the > > mouse freezes as well. > > > > The only option available then is to press the reset button to reboot > > the system. > > > > There doesn't appear to be any specific application that causes the > > freeze. It typically happens when I have a largish number of > > applications open at once (say: Firefox, Eclipse, Thunderbird, Pidgin, > > Terminal, Putty), but I could be working in any one of the applications. > > > > This problem has been happening since I installed F7 soon after the > > official release. So I have seen this behavior with at least three > > kernels (including the last release a few days ago). > > > > My system spec: > > > > - CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo e6600 > > - Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 > > - Video card: Asus EN7900GS > > - kernel.x86_64 2.6.21-1.3228 > > > > All currently available F7 updates installed. > > > > Are there any known issues that may be causing this? If not, should I > > be reporting it as a bug? > > > > Regards, > > Langdon > > Langdon, > > I have the same problem, also with F7 on an x86_64 system. I've tried all > the development kernels for F7, I also tried the i386 version of F7, and I > even tried going back to the current FC6 kernel and no luck, the system > still crashes. Nothing comes out on the console (using a serial console) > occasionally I'll get an entry in /var/log/mcelog but they did not > coincide with the system crash. > > This system ran stable as a rock on FC6 and as of last night I went back > to FC6. When reinstalling the system I reformatted all the partitions > except for /home. > > The system is an Intel DG965RY motherboard and a Pentium D processor. > > Just to make sure something didn't happen to the system between the > upgrades I ran for 9+ hrs memtest86 v3.3, it found no errors. > > Jeff I have this problem, too. I had assumed it had something to do with either: -using the experimental 'intel' display driver in xorg.conf; -using the experimental accel method 'EXA' in xorg.conf; or -setting the use of transparency and shadows in KDE Control Centre. Apparently, the problem is another...?
