On 6/21/07, William Case billlinux@rogers.com wrote:
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.
I'm experiencing this freeze too. I've disabled irqbalance, put "noirqbalance" in the kernel parameters, removed compiz. But my F7 system still freezes a few times a day.
It appears related to the desktop environment. I can leave it there for weeks, with server processes running. But if I sit there and using the desktop environment, it then freezes frequently. Nothing in the log files.
I'm running F7 x86_64, with AMD X2 and the latest nVidia driver. I've run memtest for hours without errors. The kernel version is 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7.
DS
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
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