Fedora unusually unstable recently?

Ranjan Maitra maitra at iastate.edu
Fri Feb 17 20:15:00 UTC 2012


On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:34:36 +0100 Christopher Svanefalk
<christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Clarification: the subject is of course not implying that Fedora is usually
> unstable, it is one of the most robust OS:s to date.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Christopher Svanefalk <
> christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have no idea what is going on, but since my last batch of updates (about
> > 2 days ago now), F16 has been crashing repeatedly. Often, this will happen
> > when moving windows between workspaces, other times it will just happen
> > randomly. Sometimes I am kicked out to the login screen, but most of the
> > time I will just get a hard freeze forcing a physical reboot.
> >
> > Anyone else had similar issues? Any workarounds?

Same here: earlier today, someone (can't recall who, and I did not save
the message) mentioned on the ML that gtk3 is the culprit. Perhaps an
update pushed recently may fix the problem. I hope so.

HTH,
Ranjan


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