Fedora unusually unstable recently?

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:08:44 -0500 Terry Polzin <foxec208 at wowway.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 20:34 +0100, Christopher Svanefalk 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?
> >         
> >         
> >         // Chris
> > 
> 
> XFCE has been rock solid on my two machines.

Do you have gtk3 installed? If so, then that is not the culprit. 

I do not use gnome, relying on LXDE. The trouble is that lots of rpms
(conky, NetworkManager-gtk, etc) are made dependent on gtk3 or
gnome-toolkits, so I have no choice but to pull this in.

Ranjan