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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Petar Nedyalkov</b> <<a href="mailto:bu@orbitel.bg">bu@orbitel.bg</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Bob St John wrote:<br>> Folks,<br>><br>> I have an intermittent (but frequent) problem with FC6. At first I
<br>> thought it was a hardware problem, but now I don't think it is.<br>><br>> This is a dual boot system. Windows XP does not crash at all, but FC6<br>> crashes frequently.<br>><br>> uname -a output: Linux Linux
2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16<br>> 14:39:22 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<br>><br>> Other facts:<br>> - Memtest completes multiple passes without detecting any problems<br>> - Both FC6 and WinXP are on the same hard disk (and since WinXP works
<br>> fine I don't think it's a disk or disk controller problem.)<br>> - Same logic as above for the power supply.<br>> - Logging in text mode causes no problems; logging in with either GNOME<br>> or KDE crashes the system 99% of the time after a short period of time.
<br>> - The other 1% of the time FC6 seems stable for at least several hours.<br>> In fact earlier this week it was up for 3 or 4 days with relatively<br>> heavy usage with no problems.<br>> - Periodically, in GNOME, straight but zig-zagged brown lines appear on
<br>> the display.<br>> - As root, I can bring up the KDE environment but not the GNOME<br>> environment. As other users I can bring up both GNOME and KDE.<br>> - The crashes happen most frequently when I'm using Evolution, but since
<br>> I use that more than anything else this may not be very indicative.<br>> - When crashes occur the display freezes but the mouse moves freely.<br>> - When crashes occur the only thing I can do is physically power off the
<br>> machine. When I turn it back on it boots quickly with only this<br>> indication of errors: "usb 1-3: cannot allocate device 2 error -110" or<br>> something close to that.<br>> - I don't know too much about Linux, but I see no error messages from
<br>> dmesg or in /var/log/messages<br>> - Thinking that this has something to do with X11, I have deleted the<br>> xorg.conf file and rebuilt it with system-config-display (several<br>> times.)<br>><br>> So I'm at a loss at resolving this problem. Any suggestions?
<br>><br>> Thanks . . .<br><br>I have the same problem but I haven't investigated it yet. I think the reason<br>for this freeze may be the ATI proprietary drivers because I've had similar<br>problems in the past and moving to a new version of the fglrx driver
<br>stabilizes the system. Since I use drivers packed from Livna and I'm don't<br>know what's your graphics card - please share this info with us.<br><br>I'll further investigate it today.<br><br>><br>> Bob St. John
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