On Wednesday, July 28, 2010 22:06:22 Alex wrote:
That's not really a BSOD, it's the Fedora boot splash screen. You can hit ESC and have the system print the text boot messages (uncovering them by clearing the blue screen).
Nope, it was completely unresponsive. No network, keyboard, or mouse. No ctrl-alt-bs.
Can you verify that the kernel is alive? Can you login from another machine using ssh? Does the machine respond to a ping?
If you use GDM/Gnome, ctrl-alt-bs is disabled, IIRC.
The one time I saw it happen, the blue splash screen appeared and I believe nearly immediately it became unresponsive.
Under what circumstances would that splash screen occur, when the system had already booted and I had logged in? I don't believe the system was idle for longer than a few minutes, and the screensaver/power management turns off the monitor after ten minutes, so I don't believe that was the problem either.
I would guess this is an X issue. And typically due to a bug in graphics drivers. What video hardware do you have? What drivers do you use?
When it happens again, I would take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log (if you can ssh from a remote machine) or /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old (if you cannot and have rebooted into runlevel 5 again). If X got hung, something there should give you a clue what happened. If you post the log here, maybe we can help more.
HTH, :-) Marko