Intermittent (but frequent) problem with FC6.

[Javier Perez]

On 2/22/07, Petar Nedyalkov <bu at orbitel.bg> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Bob St John wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I have an intermittent (but frequent) problem with FC6. At first I
> > thought it was a hardware problem, but now I don't think it is.
> >
> > This is a dual boot system. Windows XP does not crash at all, but FC6
> > crashes frequently.
> >
> > uname -a output: Linux Linux 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16
> > 14:39:22 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > Other facts:
> > - Memtest completes multiple passes without detecting any problems
> > - Both FC6 and WinXP are on the same hard disk (and since WinXP works
> > fine I don't think it's a disk or disk controller problem.)
> > - Same logic as above for the power supply.
> > - Logging in text mode causes no problems; logging in with either GNOME
> > or KDE crashes the system 99% of the time after a short period of time.
> > - The other 1% of the time FC6 seems stable for at least several hours.
> > In fact earlier this week it was up for 3 or 4 days with relatively
> > heavy usage with no problems.
> > - Periodically, in GNOME, straight but zig-zagged brown lines appear on
> > the display.
> > - As root, I can bring up the KDE environment but not the GNOME
> > environment. As other users I can bring up both GNOME and KDE.
> > - The crashes happen most frequently when I'm using Evolution, but since
> > I use that more than anything else this may not be very indicative.
> > - When crashes occur the display freezes but the mouse moves freely.
> > - When crashes occur the only thing I can do is physically power off the
> > machine. When I turn it back on it boots quickly with only this
> > indication of errors: "usb 1-3: cannot allocate device 2 error -110" or
> > something close to that.
> > - I don't know too much about Linux, but I see no error messages from
> > dmesg or in /var/log/messages
> > - Thinking that this has something to do with X11, I have deleted the
> > xorg.conf file and rebuilt it with system-config-display (several
> > times.)
> >
> > So I'm at a loss at resolving this problem. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks . . .
>
> I have the same problem but I haven't investigated it yet. I think the
> reason
> for this freeze may be the ATI proprietary drivers because I've had
> similar
> problems in the past and moving to a new version of the fglrx driver
> stabilizes the system. Since I use drivers packed from Livna and I'm don't
> know what's your graphics card - please share this info with us.
>
> I'll further investigate it today.
>
> >
> > Bob St. John
>
>
>
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