Hi Langdon et al;
I usually stay away from hardware threads. They are normally beyond my
level. But, I had what sounds like the same problem, and here is how I
fixed it.
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 00:37 +1000, Langdon Stevenson 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
For my problem, the CPU, motherboard and video card do not seem
relevant.
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?
I have a second user on my machine which we have been logging into
through the gdmflexiserver gui. When I am (user1), the original user,
and we switch to user2, his screen and the entire computer freezes,
panels don't work and some applications remove themselves from the
panel. I had to Ctrl-Alt-F2 to a terminal, login as root and killall -
u user2. I then had to reboot.
So, the problem could have been a bug with the user-switcher or gdm ??
Or,
When I checked his session manager, I found 'compiz' checked as a
startup application. I do not use compiz as user1, and user2 swears he
never used or tried compiz (??). In any case, I removed compiz from
session startup and haven't had a problem since. A bug in compiz -
perhaps
Not quite true, once every two or three months I get a freezeup while
using the email composer in Evolution. That problem was here in FC6 as
well as F-7 so probably not related.
--
Regards Bill