On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 14:17 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Martin Sourada martin.sourada@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 00:07 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
Check kernel logs and X logs after rebooting, see if there's crash notifications in either. (You'll want to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old rather than Xorg.0.log). What's the gfx card?
Thanks, I'll check that out, though I doubt that there'll be anything... I have intel 945. Another interesting thing is, I logged into a different account (which I use to testing/playing around) that currently has gnome-shell (as opposed to composited metacity) and so far after more than an hour no freeze. I'll see if it's still running tomorrow.
Ok, that wasn't it. It froze in gnome-shell as well. In the exactly same moment when external USB HDD was waking up (initiated by ls -l on some folder in it). So over night I run full fsck on it. No errors reported, but right now it seems to work (at least I wasn't able to reproduce the freeze in single user mode, I'll see if it appears again in init 5).
/var/log/Xorg.0.log* and /var/log/messages show no traces about the freeze.
So it appeared again, after several hours of usage (so it's much better than it initially was), this time in gnome-screensaver. The USB drive appeared to be running, so I guess kernel was frozen as well.
So, after slowly eliminating possible causes, I came to (uncertain) conclusion that f14 kernel does not like my network card (i.e. unless I missed something, the only time I wasn't able to reproduce this yet is without network cable plugged in). It also seems the freezes have got a lot less frequent (but that might be purely coincidental).
Kernel: kernel-2.6.35.4-28.fc14.i686
Network card: 06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
Martin