F14 Branched -- hard freezes

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 22:36 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been encountering a strange issue I have no idea how to handle --
> my laptop hard freezes about an half an hour after boot, irrespective of
> what am I doing (first I was doing something in midori, second I was
> listening to some song in rhythmbox, third I wasn't even present).
> Screen freezes, one cannot ping the machine, sound, if any is playing at
> the time of freeze, plays an infinite loop.
> 
> Strange thing is, when I was home it didn't froze for 3 straight days.
> It does not freeze on F12 either. The only difference is that at the
> place where it freezes I also have external USB HDD, USB keyboard and
> USB wireless mouse connected and use wired connection instead of
> wireless.
> 
> Anyone one having similar issues? Any idea how to debug this? How to
> produce some usable info in order to fill a bug?

Check kernel logs and X logs after rebooting, see if there's crash
notifications in either. (You'll want to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
rather than Xorg.0.log). What's the gfx card?
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