Fedora Core 2 freeze after several minutes/hours

[Lemke, Wesley]

I had a similar problem, but it happened on all screen savers, not just
OpenGL ones.  It turned out to not be related to the screensavers, but
to ACPI.  I put acpi=off as a kernel parameter, and now the machine
doesn't lock up at all.

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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of David A. Frantz
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:47 AM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 freeze after several minutes/hours


Hi Team; I've been dealing with this problem for on and off for a while 
on my test machine. It does appear to be X-related. What I noticed last 
night was that I was running on one of Fedoras older kernels. Apparently

when I updated the kernel to the latest grub was never reconfigured to 
point to the right default kernel. Apparently someone was not keeping an

eye on the reboot process;) In any event the machine ran all last night,

though that is not a final evaluation as the machine often ran for a day

or more. So atleast this is a suggestion, make sure you are up to date 
with both the kernel and OpenGL. Of course another day may prove this to

be garbage. DAVE Message: 7 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 02:13:12 -0400 From: 
Gerry Doris <gdoris at rogers.com> Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 freeze after 
several minutes/hours To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
<fedora-list at redhat.com> Message-ID: 
<1090476792.2331.15.camel at jaguar.dorfam.ca> Content-Type: text/plain On 
Wed, 2004-07-21 at 07:47, e98cuenc at free.fr wrote:

>> Hi!
>> 
>> I'm running FC2 on a PIII 733Mhz with a Powercolor graphic card 
>> (powered by an ATI 7500).
>> 
>> After a few (1-2) hours of use, it stops dead for no obvious reason 
>> (doing nothing CPU intensive, sometimes just reading a local html 
>> page with mozilla).
>> 
>> Everything is freezed, including the mouse. I've reproduced the same 
>> problem with another card (a nvidia GeForce 2).
>> 
>> It doesn't seems to happen when I don't run X (that's why I suspected

>> the graphic card...), but I have still not remained for hours on 
>> without X, so I don't know for sure.
>> 
>> Does anybody have any hints about what can I try to get some info 
>> about this freeze?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>  
>

I am also experiencing random lockups with a PIII 400Mhz test system. 
It has a nvidia video card installed.  I was using their binary driver
but removed it and am just using the supplied 2d one.  I still get the
random freezes.

I noticed that I always get a kernel oops complaining about a virtual
paging problem when I check the logs.  I am still trying to resolve this
but it does appear that when I set the screen saver to just a blank page
the problem goes away.


-- Gerry Doris <gdoris at rogers.com>


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