random crashes

[Andras Simon]

On 2/26/11, agraham <agraham at g-b.net> wrote:
> On 02/26/2011 05:33 PM, Chris Tyler wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:21 +0100, Andras Simon wrote:
>>> My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when
>>> I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it.
>> (snip)
>>
>> A bit more information would help us make some useful suggestions --
>>
>> What kind of hardware? (lshw can be useful here)
>>
>> What kind of crashes?
>> - system turns off abruptly
>> - system locks up from GUI but is still pingable
>> - system locks up and is unresponsive both locally and on the network
>> - gui shuts down and error messages spray all over the console
>> - ...?
>>
>> What's your system configuration, in particular the video configuration
>> (in terms of both hardware and software)?
>>
>> Any health alerts from your hardware? You mention checking temperature
>> and seeing nothing unusual, anything from the disk via SMART? If your
>> BIOS reports voltage levels, are they normal?
>>
>> Any correlation between activity and crashes? Does it happen when you're
>> using the machine, or away from it for a few minutes? Does it matter
>> what you're doing?
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>
> In addition, is the kernel tainted?

No, it's vanilla F14. I did a minimal install, and got the first crash
after the first reboot.

Andras