Random Lockups Anyone?

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 20 February 2009 08:10:02 Tejas Dinkar wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Lorenzo Villani sent out 2.0K bytes to say:
> > Same problem here, same graphic driver and same adapter. I heard this is
> > an intel driver issue (lockups magically disappeared after the switch to
> > the 'vesa' driver - ouch! - on my laptop).
>
> I've switched to vesa as well.
>
> It's the only thing that prevents the lockups for me. But I'm crying
> because all the nice eye candy is missing.
>
> Xorg -configure :1 && sed 's/intel/vesa/' xorg.conf.new >
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> is the simplest way to switch :P.
>
> If you are still facing lockups, I suggest you guys be very very
> careful. It seems like every open file gets some sort of corruption with
> the kernel panic. I lost a (nearly everything) on my /home partition
> thanks to this, and various config files (most commonly akregator's
> config file) kept vanishing. Take a backup of your .kde folder (and
> everything else that matters) NOW.
>
> If this makes any sense to you:
> I've noticed that it is slightly safer to press power button once, allow
> the kernel to panic, then hold power button again for n secs (to
> poweroff), instead of just holding power button.
>
> Trust me, a message telling you that you need to run fsck on your /home
> is not funny.

Driver problems a very important to us all.  They will stand a better chance 
of getting sorted if problems are reported.  Please check bugzilla, and if no 
suitable report exists, create one.

Anne
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