problem: system freezes.

[Rick Stevens]

On 09/09/2013 01:34 PM, linuxnutster at videotron.ca issued this missive:
> On 09/09/2013 04:15 PM, William Mattison wrote:
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> This is Fedora-19 on a 64 bit quad-core i7; with an Nvidia GEFORCE GTX
>> 660.  I most recently updated Fedora last Wednesday, Sept. 04.
>>
>> At least once each day, the system just locks up with no advanced
>> warning or symptoms.  It just stops responding to the trackball and
>> keystrokes.  The display simply stops changing.  The only things I can
>> do is a hard reset or cut off the power.  I am not aware of any pattern
>> to what I'm doing when such a freeze-up happens.  Once it happened after
>> logging in and simply launching a terminal window; another time I was
>> doing a "more" on a test file; another time I was reading e-mail through
>> Firefox; another time I was listening to a CD; another time I was
>> preparing to burn an audio CD.  No error messages show up on the screen.
>>
>> This problem has been occurring for a few weeks now, and was occurring
>> when I had Fedora-18 also.  I just now think I have the time to try to
>> handle it.  (I'm guessing this will take some doing!)
>>
>> I'm just a home user.  I have no sys. admin. training or experience.
>> How do I diagnose and fix this?
>>
>> Thank-you in advance for your help.
>> Bill.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> I'd start by going here:
>
> http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
>
> Burn it to CD/DVD, set your bios to boot up on  CD/DVD. Go to the memory
> section and run the highest version of memtest86+ to check your memory.
> The last time I had freezes like that in Linux, I'd blow a couple of
> memory bars.

Yeah, I guess that's number one. Make sure the system itself is healthy
(memory is OK, power supply isn't dying, etc.).
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