Folks,
I have an intermittent (but frequent) problem with FC6. At first I thought it was a hardware problem, but now I don't think it is.
This is a dual boot system. Windows XP does not crash at all, but FC6 crashes frequently.
uname -a output: Linux Linux 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:39:22 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Other facts: - Memtest completes multiple passes without detecting any problems - Both FC6 and WinXP are on the same hard disk (and since WinXP works fine I don't think it's a disk or disk controller problem.) - Same logic as above for the power supply. - Logging in text mode causes no problems; logging in with either GNOME or KDE crashes the system 99% of the time after a short period of time. - The other 1% of the time FC6 seems stable for at least several hours. In fact earlier this week it was up for 3 or 4 days with relatively heavy usage with no problems. - Periodically, in GNOME, straight but zig-zagged brown lines appear on the display. - As root, I can bring up the KDE environment but not the GNOME environment. As other users I can bring up both GNOME and KDE. - The crashes happen most frequently when I'm using Evolution, but since I use that more than anything else this may not be very indicative. - When crashes occur the display freezes but the mouse moves freely. - When crashes occur the only thing I can do is physically power off the machine. When I turn it back on it boots quickly with only this indication of errors: "usb 1-3: cannot allocate device 2 error -110" or something close to that. - I don't know too much about Linux, but I see no error messages from dmesg or in /var/log/messages - Thinking that this has something to do with X11, I have deleted the xorg.conf file and rebuilt it with system-config-display (several times.)
So I'm at a loss at resolving this problem. Any suggestions?
Thanks . . .
Bob St. John
Bob St John wrote:
Folks,
I have an intermittent (but frequent) problem with FC6. At first I thought it was a hardware problem, but now I don't think it is.
This is a dual boot system. Windows XP does not crash at all, but FC6 crashes frequently.
uname -a output: Linux Linux 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:39:22 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Other facts:
- Memtest completes multiple passes without detecting any problems
- Both FC6 and WinXP are on the same hard disk (and since WinXP works
fine I don't think it's a disk or disk controller problem.)
- Same logic as above for the power supply.
- Logging in text mode causes no problems; logging in with either GNOME
or KDE crashes the system 99% of the time after a short period of time.
- The other 1% of the time FC6 seems stable for at least several hours.
In fact earlier this week it was up for 3 or 4 days with relatively heavy usage with no problems.
- Periodically, in GNOME, straight but zig-zagged brown lines appear on
the display.
- As root, I can bring up the KDE environment but not the GNOME
environment. As other users I can bring up both GNOME and KDE.
- The crashes happen most frequently when I'm using Evolution, but since
I use that more than anything else this may not be very indicative.
- When crashes occur the display freezes but the mouse moves freely.
- When crashes occur the only thing I can do is physically power off the
machine. When I turn it back on it boots quickly with only this indication of errors: "usb 1-3: cannot allocate device 2 error -110" or something close to that.
- I don't know too much about Linux, but I see no error messages from
dmesg or in /var/log/messages
- Thinking that this has something to do with X11, I have deleted the
xorg.conf file and rebuilt it with system-config-display (several times.)
So I'm at a loss at resolving this problem. Any suggestions?
Thanks . . .
Bob St. John
It does have symptoms related to a GUI problem. You can probably see if there is any clues in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log or the /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old file if in text mode. Just use the .old file for problems if diagnosing using the GUI. The /var/log/Xorg.0.log contains info related to the current session and probably will not contain info about the lockup. The old log should be the crashed session.
It could be the mouse interaction with X or it might relate to the type of video hardware that you have on the machine. You might need the lspci info with the video hardware information to allow others to be able to help you better. I see you are using the 64-bit version so this might be something that is specific to the 64-bit version.
Sorry no help, but a few suggestions however. Jim
On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Bob St John wrote:
Folks,
I have an intermittent (but frequent) problem with FC6. At first I thought it was a hardware problem, but now I don't think it is.
This is a dual boot system. Windows XP does not crash at all, but FC6 crashes frequently.
uname -a output: Linux Linux 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:39:22 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Other facts:
- Memtest completes multiple passes without detecting any problems
- Both FC6 and WinXP are on the same hard disk (and since WinXP works
fine I don't think it's a disk or disk controller problem.)
- Same logic as above for the power supply.
- Logging in text mode causes no problems; logging in with either GNOME
or KDE crashes the system 99% of the time after a short period of time.
- The other 1% of the time FC6 seems stable for at least several hours.
In fact earlier this week it was up for 3 or 4 days with relatively heavy usage with no problems.
- Periodically, in GNOME, straight but zig-zagged brown lines appear on
the display.
- As root, I can bring up the KDE environment but not the GNOME
environment. As other users I can bring up both GNOME and KDE.
- The crashes happen most frequently when I'm using Evolution, but since
I use that more than anything else this may not be very indicative.
- When crashes occur the display freezes but the mouse moves freely.
- When crashes occur the only thing I can do is physically power off the
machine. When I turn it back on it boots quickly with only this indication of errors: "usb 1-3: cannot allocate device 2 error -110" or something close to that.
- I don't know too much about Linux, but I see no error messages from
dmesg or in /var/log/messages
- Thinking that this has something to do with X11, I have deleted the
xorg.conf file and rebuilt it with system-config-display (several times.)
So I'm at a loss at resolving this problem. Any suggestions?
Thanks . . .
I have the same problem but I haven't investigated it yet. I think the reason for this freeze may be the ATI proprietary drivers because I've had similar problems in the past and moving to a new version of the fglrx driver stabilizes the system. Since I use drivers packed from Livna and I'm don't know what's your graphics card - please share this info with us.
I'll further investigate it today.
Bob St. John
On 2/22/07, Petar Nedyalkov bu@orbitel.bg wrote:
On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Bob St John wrote:
Folks,
I have an intermittent (but frequent) problem with FC6. At first I thought it was a hardware problem, but now I don't think it is.
This is a dual boot system. Windows XP does not crash at all, but FC6 crashes frequently.
uname -a output: Linux Linux 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:39:22 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Other facts:
- Memtest completes multiple passes without detecting any problems
- Both FC6 and WinXP are on the same hard disk (and since WinXP works
fine I don't think it's a disk or disk controller problem.)
- Same logic as above for the power supply.
- Logging in text mode causes no problems; logging in with either GNOME
or KDE crashes the system 99% of the time after a short period of time.
- The other 1% of the time FC6 seems stable for at least several hours.
In fact earlier this week it was up for 3 or 4 days with relatively heavy usage with no problems.
- Periodically, in GNOME, straight but zig-zagged brown lines appear on
the display.
- As root, I can bring up the KDE environment but not the GNOME
environment. As other users I can bring up both GNOME and KDE.
- The crashes happen most frequently when I'm using Evolution, but since
I use that more than anything else this may not be very indicative.
- When crashes occur the display freezes but the mouse moves freely.
- When crashes occur the only thing I can do is physically power off the
machine. When I turn it back on it boots quickly with only this indication of errors: "usb 1-3: cannot allocate device 2 error -110" or something close to that.
- I don't know too much about Linux, but I see no error messages from
dmesg or in /var/log/messages
- Thinking that this has something to do with X11, I have deleted the
xorg.conf file and rebuilt it with system-config-display (several times.)
So I'm at a loss at resolving this problem. Any suggestions?
Thanks . . .
I have the same problem but I haven't investigated it yet. I think the reason for this freeze may be the ATI proprietary drivers because I've had similar problems in the past and moving to a new version of the fglrx driver stabilizes the system. Since I use drivers packed from Livna and I'm don't know what's your graphics card - please share this info with us.
I'll further investigate it today.
Bob St. John
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My system was SiS 630. Don't know if it helps
No separate graphics card. It's a Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) chipset.
I had been using the default "sis" drivers. In another forum I read that (paraphrasing here) if you are having problems with the sis drivers, try using the generic vesa drivers instead. I did that (replaced "sis" with "vesa" in xorg.conf) and that immediately resolved all my problems.
Bob St. John
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 10:19 -0500, Javier Perez wrote:
On 2/22/07, Petar Nedyalkov bu@orbitel.bg wrote: On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Bob St John wrote: > Folks, > > I have an intermittent (but frequent) problem with FC6. At first I > thought it was a hardware problem, but now I don't think it is. > > This is a dual boot system. Windows XP does not crash at all, but FC6 > crashes frequently. > > uname -a output: Linux Linux 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 > 14:39:22 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Other facts: > - Memtest completes multiple passes without detecting any problems > - Both FC6 and WinXP are on the same hard disk (and since WinXP works > fine I don't think it's a disk or disk controller problem.) > - Same logic as above for the power supply. > - Logging in text mode causes no problems; logging in with either GNOME > or KDE crashes the system 99% of the time after a short period of time. > - The other 1% of the time FC6 seems stable for at least several hours. > In fact earlier this week it was up for 3 or 4 days with relatively > heavy usage with no problems. > - Periodically, in GNOME, straight but zig-zagged brown lines appear on > the display. > - As root, I can bring up the KDE environment but not the GNOME > environment. As other users I can bring up both GNOME and KDE. > - The crashes happen most frequently when I'm using Evolution, but since > I use that more than anything else this may not be very indicative. > - When crashes occur the display freezes but the mouse moves freely. > - When crashes occur the only thing I can do is physically power off the > machine. When I turn it back on it boots quickly with only this > indication of errors: "usb 1-3: cannot allocate device 2 error -110" or > something close to that. > - I don't know too much about Linux, but I see no error messages from > dmesg or in /var/log/messages > - Thinking that this has something to do with X11, I have deleted the > xorg.conf file and rebuilt it with system-config-display (several > times.) > > So I'm at a loss at resolving this problem. Any suggestions? > > Thanks . . .
I have the same problem but I haven't investigated it yet. I think the reason for this freeze may be the ATI proprietary drivers because I've had similar problems in the past and moving to a new version of the fglrx driver stabilizes the system. Since I use drivers packed from Livna and I'm don't know what's your graphics card - please share this info with us. I'll further investigate it today. > > Bob St. John -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) PGP ID: 7AE45436 PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 5436 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-listMy system was SiS 630. Don't know if it helps
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