This problem has plagued me since I installed FC7.
I have an older laptop (HP Omnibook 6000) that worked great under FC6.
Never one problem.
I first tried an upgrade from FC6 to FC7, but this process repeatedly
froze in mid process. The symptoms were, frozen pointer, no disk
activity, no keyboard response, had to hard-power-reset to recover. I
then went for the fresh new install. As I recall it also had freezing
problems, but I was able to eventually complete the installation.
Ever since then, the system still freezes, but only during a yum update
or soon after the yum update completes. If it freezes during a yum
update, the machine frequently re-freezes during the hard-reset-re-boot.
It may take several attempts to get the machine to fully re-boot.
The kicker is that if I do not use yum update during a session, I never
have a problem. This problem is definitely triggered by the yum update
process.
Reading other reports of freezes I have tried:
- logging in with ssh from another computer...no response, does not
appear to be a X server problem
- checked for kernel messages ... none in any log, it just seems to stop.
Any ideas?
