Hi Langdon et al; I usually stay away from hardware threads. They are normally beyond my level. But, I had what sounds like the same problem, and here is how I fixed it. On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 00:37 +1000, Langdon Stevenson 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 For my problem, the CPU, motherboard and video card do not seem relevant. > > 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? I have a second user on my machine which we have been logging into through the gdmflexiserver gui. When I am (user1), the original user, and we switch to user2, his screen and the entire computer freezes, panels don't work and some applications remove themselves from the panel. I had to Ctrl-Alt-F2 to a terminal, login as root and killall - u user2. I then had to reboot. So, the problem could have been a bug with the user-switcher or gdm ?? Or, When I checked his session manager, I found 'compiz' checked as a startup application. I do not use compiz as user1, and user2 swears he never used or tried compiz (??). In any case, I removed compiz from session startup and haven't had a problem since. A bug in compiz - perhaps Not quite true, once every two or three months I get a freezeup while using the email composer in Evolution. That problem was here in FC6 as well as F-7 so probably not related. > -- Regards Bill
