Random total lockups
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
jtwdyp at ttlc.net
Sat Jul 17 20:01:23 UTC 2004
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It would appear that on Jul 17, Scot L. Harris did say:
> Are you running a screen saver when it locks up? There is anecdotal
> evidence that some of the GL screen savers will cause some systems to
> lock up.
In support of that "anecdotal evidence" I'll tell you that I had similar
problems under FC2. At least while running both a screen saver & the
vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 kernel.
I have been running this same PC, with the same internal hardware, as a
multi-boot machine since I it came with Win98se & SuSE 7.3
pre-installed. I currently have 4 linux installed, including FC1 with
the vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl kernel and FC2 with vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435
I have also run MDK 8.2, & 9.1 Plus redhat 9.0 & slackware 8.0. not to
mention mepis & knoppix3.4...
And the ONLY time I experienced random lockups was with FC2 using the
vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 kernel _AND_ a screen saver.
Before I upgraded the kernel (or rather allowed yum to...) I solved the
problem by going to the screen saver settings and unchecking the "Start
screen saver automatically" check-box, and poof, my lock-up problems went
away... Then after a while I turned it back on. and again started
experiencing the random lock-ups... I then gave up on the screen saver
until I accepted the vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435 kernel. Which hasn't given me
a single lockup while my current "rapid motion"->laser screen saver is
enabled... (course, I heard that most of the screen saver related tales
turned out to be a system using an OpenGL screen saver, and made a point
to not select one of them this time around)
I wouldn't rule out a hardware, or cooling issue, but turning off the
screen saver for a while is a real cheap test.
To the OP, Good luck
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