On June 18, 2007 12:58:33 Jeffrey Ross wrote:
My Fedora 7 system is running well, except for the nasty habit of freezing two or three times per day when I am working. First: all windows stop responding to the mouse and key board, then soon after, the mouse freezes as well.
The only option available then is to press the reset button to reboot the system.
There doesn't appear to be any specific application that causes the freeze. It typically happens when I have a largish number of applications open at once (say: Firefox, Eclipse, Thunderbird, Pidgin, Terminal, Putty), but I could be working in any one of the applications.
This problem has been happening since I installed F7 soon after the official release. So I have seen this behavior with at least three kernels (including the last release a few days ago).
My system spec:
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo e6600
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
- Video card: Asus EN7900GS
- kernel.x86_64 2.6.21-1.3228
All currently available F7 updates installed.
Are there any known issues that may be causing this? If not, should I be reporting it as a bug?
Regards, Langdon
Langdon,
I have the same problem, also with F7 on an x86_64 system. I've tried all the development kernels for F7, I also tried the i386 version of F7, and I even tried going back to the current FC6 kernel and no luck, the system still crashes. Nothing comes out on the console (using a serial console) occasionally I'll get an entry in /var/log/mcelog but they did not coincide with the system crash.
This system ran stable as a rock on FC6 and as of last night I went back to FC6. When reinstalling the system I reformatted all the partitions except for /home.
The system is an Intel DG965RY motherboard and a Pentium D processor.
Just to make sure something didn't happen to the system between the upgrades I ran for 9+ hrs memtest86 v3.3, it found no errors.
Jeff
I have this problem, too. I had assumed it had something to do with either:
-using the experimental 'intel' display driver in xorg.conf; -using the experimental accel method 'EXA' in xorg.conf; or -setting the use of transparency and shadows in KDE Control Centre.
Apparently, the problem is another...?