* Karl Larsen (k5di@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Jeff Krebs wrote: >> * Karl Larsen (k5di@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> >>> After so many problems seen day after day it is nice I think to hear >>> about a success. >>> >>> F8 was installed from a DVD and came right up with a video problem cuzz I >>> have a Nvidia video card. Fixed in 5 minutes with Nvidia binary. Then >>> audio problems and found pulse audio the problem. I was told to yum >>> remove and I did and audio is fine again. >>> >>> I have had all the updates and they appear to be real Updates! So >>> today December 10 2007 my F8 is working just fine. I have just one >>> problem. I >> >> I will mark this down on my calendar, and ensure that it's engraved in >> stone to pass down to historians. Such a feat was certainly unthinkable >> :) >> >> >>> seem to have a rootkit somewhere in the /home/karl/ directories. I have >>> RTK and this afternoon I plan to find the thing, or discover I have no >>> rootkit but rather another kind of problem. >>> >>> Karl >>> >> >> How do you know that you have a root kit? >> >> >> Jeff Krebs >> >> > I really do not know Jeff. But often, while using Firefox I get an > attack that puts a cross hatch screen on and removes the keyboard and > mouse, and puts a single tone out the audio channels and only a hard reset > will clear it. > > This is how I think a rootkit would work and so I got rkhunter and right > now I am trying to get it to check /home but have not found out how to do > this :-) > > Karl > I don't think that's a rootkit. Sounds like a nasty lockup to me. Have you updated your system since initial install? My experience with lockups usually involves upgrading the kernel; either things go screwey after a kernel update (not common), or things are haywire until an update. You could also have a hardware issue too. Memory can be checked with "memtest86". Motherboards? Dunno. Could be a bios update is needed. Oh, and let's change the topic a bit... Jeff Krebs
