I replaced a power supply and the spontaneous reboots associated with FFMPEG have not recurred.
However, the odd behavior where Fedora decides to ignore all input except for mouse movement persists. When this happens, Fedora seems to slowly grind to a catatonic state which requires a hardware reset. This was Monday morning with a fully updated 64 bit Fedora 17 on an 8GB Intel i5.
I was running Xfce on a GTX460SE. WSPR was running on a deselected workspace. WSPR uses a sound card, serial port, and the internet. I was browsing familiar web sites at the time.
Considering the grief Microsoft gets for BSOD it might be wise to correct this syndrome before releasing beta.
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:11:17 -0700 Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R caf@omen.com wrote:
However, the odd behavior where Fedora decides to ignore all input except for mouse movement persists. When this happens, Fedora seems to slowly grind to a catatonic state which requires a hardware reset. This was Monday morning with a fully updated 64 bit Fedora 17 on an 8GB Intel i5.
Have you tried any of these key sequences to recover?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq
Try r to get keyboard back to translate. You should then be able to move to a console and check out what is happening. There are other key descriptions in that article.
If that does nothing, using e then i, should get you back to a system with only init running. Again, at that point you should be able to access a console, though the system will be more primitive.
No dice? s to sync the file systems, b to reboot.
At least this gives you more options than rebooting directly.
On 04/03/2012 09:24 AM, stan wrote:
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:11:17 -0700 Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469Rcaf@omen.com wrote:
However, the odd behavior where Fedora decides to ignore all input except for mouse movement persists. When this happens, Fedora seems to slowly grind to a catatonic state which requires a hardware reset. This was Monday morning with a fully updated 64 bit Fedora 17 on an 8GB Intel i5.
Have you tried any of these key sequences to recover?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq
Try r to get keyboard back to translate. You should then be able to move to a console and check out what is happening. There are other key descriptions in that article.
If that does nothing, using e then i, should get you back to a system with only init running. Again, at that point you should be able to access a console, though the system will be more primitive.
No dice? s to sync the file systems, b to reboot.
At least this gives you more options than rebooting directly.
I tried the magic keystrokes and nothing happened. Caps Lock and Num Lock do not cause the keyboard LEDs to respond.