My fedora freeze it

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:47 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Aldo Foot <lunixer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I can confirm a lot of freezes in F9 as well. They seemed to have
>> >> started 2 kernels ago.
>>
>> Sorry, I forgot to mark this thread.
>>
>> > On what type of system have you experienced the problem?
>>
>> This is a customized system that I've had for a few years now. Which
>> immediately reminds me that I maybe need to dust it out.
>>
>> P4, 3.5GB of RAM, ASUS board.
>>
>> > Do you continually have this problem or have you been able to fix it?
>>
>> Since it first happened, it has happened at least 3 more times. And
>> this is a really hard lockup. I have found no pattern except for
>> network usage leading me to wonder if it is a problem with the NIC
>> kernel module.
>>
>> > Does it happen randomly or when you're doing a particular thing?
>>
>> Thing is, I use my machine for a lot of stuff. as a Mythbackend being
>> one thing. I would like to say that it seems to happen when I use the
>> network heavily. But I use the network heavily a lot more than it
>> fails -- so that isn't exactly a concrete causality.
>>
>>
>> It bloody pisses me off though. I did a kernel update last night, will
>> wait and see what happens.
>>
>> I haven't cleared out the machine yet just because the stupid SATA
>> plugs both my drives are bad, and if I lose connectivity with them, I
>> may never get it back.
> ----
> I was having that problem the last two days on F10 and this was a system
> that I had continuously updated from FC5 I think.
>
> I ended up booting into runlevel 1 and moving /etc/X11/xorg.conf to
> xorg.conf-bak and rebooting and haven't locked up since.
>
> It must have been some setting in xorg.conf that I haven't figured out.
>
> Craig


Well that double sucks. I'm on F9. I might as well just upgrade to F10.


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