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