Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/29/2012 06:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> I don't use windows....  However, I recently had a series of hangs on my F17 box that I could not explain.  Although I fixed the problem before installing the lm_sensors package I would recommend installing it and checking your CPU temps.

FWIW, I was "wrong".  I just had the hangs occur again.  However my hunch, in my case, seems still "correct".   When I restarted the system immediately after the hang I saw this....

[egreshko at meimei ~]$ sensors
nouveau-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:        +112.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +110.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:       +37.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)
Core 1:       +37.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)
Core 2:       +37.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)
Core 3:       +43.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)

Cleaned out its fan and heat sink....  Didn't have any thermal grease and will have to redo it when I get some....  But after several hours of running (without video intensive apps).

nouveau-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:        +66.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +110.0°C)

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