USB-based Gnome 3 lockups

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Digimer wrote:

>    When I got this laptop (Thinkpad W530), I ran F17. It was always 
> perfectly stable. When I installed F18, it started to (seemingly) 
> randomly lock up Gnome 3. I could never see much in syslog of use.
> 
>    I knew it was just gnome because I could still ctrl+alt+fX to other 
> terminals. If I restarted dbus, gnome restarted and most of the time I 
> could log back in. I thought it might have been my bluetooth mouse, but 
> it still crashed when bt/wan were disabled (airport mode mechanical 
> switch flipped).
> 
>    The random lock ups continued when I upgraded to Fedora 19 and I 
> never was able to sort out why. Finally I started noticing a pattern; 
> When I used the USB3 ports, it would crash within a few hours. I 
> recently stopped using the USB3 ports and it's not crashed since. The 
> USB2 ports are just fine.
> 
>    So how can I debug this further?

This query should go to the "users" list: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users


As always, first step is update the BIOS and firmware:
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/g5uj15us.txt

---cortamorena---
<2.52>
 UEFI: 2.52 / ECP: 1.09
- (Fix) Fixed an issue where the computer might hang when attaching/detaching
        the USB device to/from the computer or Docking Station.
---fin--


BTW, this model has a lot of firmware updates(disk, amt, dvd, battery, ...)