Blue screen of death

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 10:44 -0400, Alex wrote:
> As if to say, "F"-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with
> Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid
> blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the
> screen, and the whole computer locked up.
> 
> Completely dead. Catatonic. Unresponsive. Nothing in the logs.
> 
> What the hell happened?
> 
> This is really aggravating, because it has been one problem after
> another, and I'm beginning to rethink my decision on this desktop.

Lately I've been having random desktop lockups (i.e. I can't do
anything), but I can still hear my mp3s playing.  My mouse stops working
on a whim, forcing me to use my keyboard to close apps and then switch
to a pty to kill my messed up Gnome session.  Sound stops working for no
apparent, although I can bring it back easily enough by restarting
pulseaudio.

Just a little while ago my desktop froze again and I had to do a hard
power off to get it back.

I'm not sure if it's something flaky with my hardware or if it's Fedora
12 that's somehow hosed.  My PC at work runs Fedora 12 flawlessly, so
I'm starting to think my hardware is wonky, but I'm not yet convinced.

Regards,

Ranbir


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Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Linux 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 
16:51:08 up 59 min, 3 users, load average: 0.23, 0.09, 0.02