Frequent Gnome lock-ups since fresh F18 install - It's the Samsung 840 Pro SSD, don't know why

[Digimer]

I wanted to post a follow-up. I've determined that the 2~3x/day crash 
was caused by my Samsung 840 Pro SSD. I've posted my findings to the 
fedora-devel mailing list.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-February/178835.html

Maybe this will help save someone the frustrations I've enjoyed this 
past week. >_>

digimer

On 02/12/2013 09:48 PM, Digimer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    I had F17 and updated it last week to F18. It was perfectly stable
> and I had no problems with Gnome.
>
>    I did a fresh install of F18 (fresh drive) on Sunday and since then
> Gnome 3 has locked up hard on me six times (three times just today).
> Each time, I can ctrl+alt+f2 into a terminal and I've tried restarting
> various things without successfully recovering.
>
>    If I run 'init 3' -> 'init 5', Gnome restarts and the system is
> usable again. It seems to happen randomly, though it generally happens
> when I am flipping between windows with alt+tab or alt+tilde. That said,
> it just crashed on me when I tried to unlock the screen after being gone
> for about an hour.
>
>    This time, I checked syslog and these were the last messages before
> the lock up;
>
> ===========
> Feb 12 21:38:50 lemass systemd[1]: Starting Getty on tty2...
> Feb 12 21:38:50 lemass systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty2.
> Feb 12 21:38:51 lemass dbus-daemon[749]: dbus[749]: [system] Activating
> service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
> Feb 12 21:38:51 lemass dbus[749]: [system] Activating service
> name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
> Feb 12 21:38:51 lemass dbus-daemon[749]: dbus[749]: [system]
> Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
> Feb 12 21:38:51 lemass dbus[749]: [system] Successfully activated
> service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
> Feb 12 21:38:51 lemass dbus-daemon[749]: Launching FprintObject
> Feb 12 21:38:51 lemass dbus-daemon[749]: ** Message: D-Bus service
> launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
> Feb 12 21:38:51 lemass dbus-daemon[749]: ** Message: entering main loop
> Feb 12 21:39:12 lemass systemd-logind[743]: New session 5 of user root.
> Feb 12 21:39:22 lemass dbus-daemon[749]: ** Message: No devices in use,
> exit
> ===========
>
>    This time I tried restarting dbus.service and it closed and,
> eventually, restarted Gnome.
>
>    This is getting to the point where I can't really be productive with
> my laptop. Whenever it hangs, I lose anything not yet saved as gnome
> becomes totally unresponsive. I am not sure what I would open a ticket
> on even.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Digimer
>


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