Jeff Krebs wrote:
* 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
Thanks for the Subject change! I am at a loss to explain the
problem. But I had an attack while just on F8 without the F7 old my
login I have been using. So I think now no rootkit.
It could be xorg or it could be a lot of things. But will plan to
continue to trace it down. It is quite a drag.
Karl
PS: will check the things you mention right now.
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