Kernel 2.6.10-1.14_FC2
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Feb 16 00:12:39 UTC 2005
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:09:02PM -0500, David Curry wrote:
> I downloaded the 2.6.10-1.14_FC2 kernel today and promptly rebooted to
> give it a spin.
>
> My system froze up fairly quickly and then repeated that performance on
> reboot. The only way I was able to recover control of the system in
> both instances was through pushing Reset on the box.
>
> On the first occurence, I had stepped away from the machine for several
> minutes and returned to discover a screensaver pattern on the screen
> with system completely unresponsive to mouse and keyboard.
>
> On the second occurence, I stepped away for a few minutes and returned
> to find a dialogue box displayed on the desktop advising that the volume
> control applet had died suddenly and asking if I wanted to restart it.
> I selected "No". Within seconds the Gnome panel at the bottom of the
> screen disappeared and the system was unresponsive to mouse and keyboard.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this system behavior with the new kernel?
Did you try the .13 one too ? I'm curious if this is something
introduced by the exec-shield fixes.
Dave
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