Random system paralysis in f10

Thomas Janssen thomasj at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 13 10:50:28 UTC 2010


2010/1/12 John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net>:
> Hi:  I know f10 has gone EOL but I'm still running it until I 'finish'
> my parallel install of f12.  The f10 system has the kde 4.3.3 packages
> from f10 updates, and I don't think I saw this problem before they were
> installed - but I also recently added a 1TB sdb, upgraded to mythtv 0.22
> and began regular use of ProjectX under java (from Sun).
>
> Usually things work as expected, but there is a problem.  The paralysis
> usually occurs when both sda and sdb are being accessed, sometimes quite
> intensively; things progressively stop working as I switch windows, and
> I can't shut down and do a normal reboot because several devices say
> they are busy.  The only way out seems to be to switch off.  On reboot
> everything has, so far, been ok, but dvb recordings that were in
> progress aren't properly closed.
>
> I've always had Konqueror open, with tabs showing the recordings folders
> on the two drives, when this has happened.  Today it was apparently
> precipitated by opening the second tab.  I'm wondering if I've hit a
> Konqueror bug, or if I may have a BIOS/sdb mismatch.  Any ideas?
> Perhaps I should try Dolphin again.

Could be that you have enabled Nepomuk in System-Settings and it bites you.
The Redland backend is aweful slow and freezes Konqueror/Dolphin. But
the rest should normally still work.

You could as well try to have your HDDs on different controller
(guessing they are on the same).

-- 
LG Thomas

Dubium sapientiae initium


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