F19 suddenly very unstable

[Frédéric Bron]

Hi,
My F19 has suddenly become very unstable. After about 10 minutes of
running with KDE, the opened windows start to be closed automatically.
I even cannot stop the machine. I have access to the fedora menu but
its rendering is very odd and clicking on shutdown does not do
anything. I cannot go to a terminal either (with konsole which I
cannot start or with Ctrl+Alt+F2).
I have noticed that if I start the computer and just wait at the login
screen of kdm, the keyboard start to not work when I try to type my
login.
I do not know where to look at to find the cause of this.
My F19 is uptodate, with kernel 3.11.7. I have tried to boot with
3.11.6 but experience the same issue.
I have a nvidia video card but I do not use the nvidia driver, the
nouveau one provided by F19 instead.

Thanks for any help,

Frédéric

> My F19 has suddenly become very unstable. After about 10 minutes of
> running with KDE, the opened windows start to be closed automatically.
> I even cannot stop the machine. I have access to the fedora menu but
> its rendering is very odd and clicking on shutdown does not do
> anything. I cannot go to a terminal either (with konsole which I
> cannot start or with Ctrl+Alt+F2).

Have you tried coming up in runlevel 3?

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[Frédéric Bron]

> > My F19 has suddenly become very unstable. After about 10 minutes of
> > running with KDE, the opened windows start to be closed automatically.
> > I even cannot stop the machine. I have access to the fedora menu but
> > its rendering is very odd and clicking on shutdown does not do
> > anything. I cannot go to a terminal either (with konsole which I
> > cannot start or with Ctrl+Alt+F2).
>
> Have you tried coming up in runlevel 3?

I haven't. How could I do it I cannot open a terminal as root?
However, one time, I could see a disk error while trying Ctrl+Alt+F2.
I then found the following:
http://papillon-butineur.blogspot.fr/2012/10/endrequest-io-error-dev-sda-sec...
where I saw that my SSD disk could just need an firmware update (my
disk is the same as the one described in the link).
I upgraded the SSD disk firmware and since then everything is fine. I
keep my fingers crossed because it may come again but for now,
everything is fine again!

Thanks,

Frédéric

[Richard Vickery]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote:
> > > My F19 has suddenly become very unstable. After about 10 minutes of
> > > running with KDE, the opened windows start to be closed automatically.
> > > I even cannot stop the machine. I have access to the fedora menu but
> > > its rendering is very odd and clicking on shutdown does not do
> > > anything. I cannot go to a terminal either (with konsole which I
> > > cannot start or with Ctrl+Alt+F2).
> >
> > Have you tried coming up in runlevel 3?
>
> I haven't. How could I do it I cannot open a terminal as root?
> However, one time, I could see a disk error while trying Ctrl+Alt+F2.
> I then found the following:
>
> http://papillon-butineur.blogspot.fr/2012/10/endrequest-io-error-dev-sda-sec...
> where I saw that my SSD disk could just need an firmware update (my
> disk is the same as the one described in the link).
> I upgraded the SSD disk firmware and since then everything is fine. I
> keep my fingers crossed because it may come again but for now,
> everything is fine again!
>
> Thanks,
> Frédéric

It should be possible to either su, or sudo, from a user terminal