On 08/05/2010 01:56 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 10:44 -0400, Alex wrote: >> As if to say, "F"-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with >> Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid >> blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the >> screen, and the whole computer locked up. >> >> Completely dead. Catatonic. Unresponsive. Nothing in the logs. >> >> What the hell happened? >> >> This is really aggravating, because it has been one problem after >> another, and I'm beginning to rethink my decision on this desktop. > > Lately I've been having random desktop lockups (i.e. I can't do > anything), but I can still hear my mp3s playing. My mouse stops working > on a whim, forcing me to use my keyboard to close apps and then switch > to a pty to kill my messed up Gnome session. Sound stops working for no > apparent, although I can bring it back easily enough by restarting > pulseaudio. > > Just a little while ago my desktop froze again and I had to do a hard > power off to get it back. > > I'm not sure if it's something flaky with my hardware or if it's Fedora > 12 that's somehow hosed. My PC at work runs Fedora 12 flawlessly, so > I'm starting to think my hardware is wonky, but I'm not yet convinced. Are you using an Asus motherboard such as the M3N78-VM? There are known problems with the nVidia MCP78S-based USB ports on the Asus boards (not just the model above) that can cause random lock ups. This isn't a Linux-only thing--there are a number of reports that it does it with Winblows also. The dead giveaway is the mouse and/or keyboard freezing with X starting to suck up 100% of one of the CPU cores. I know--I've been bitten by it quite a lot recently. There's no fix that I know of. It appears to be a hardware design issue. I have purchased a new motherboard (can't remember the make) that specifically does NOT use nVidia. It uses an AMD chipset instead of nVidia and an ATI video card. I haven't installed it yet, but will this weekend. Also will give me a chance to poke around with the ATI video drivers (fun, fun, fun!). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "Doctor! My brain hurts!" "It will have to come out!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
