Fedora 7 freezes two or three times per day
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Thu Jun 21 16:24:59 UTC 2007
Hi Langdon et al;
I usually stay away from hardware threads. They are normally beyond my
level. But, I had what sounds like the same problem, and here is how I
fixed it.
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 00:37 +1000, Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> My Fedora 7 system is running well, except for the nasty habit of
> freezing two or three times per day when I am working. First: all
> windows stop responding to the mouse and key board, then soon after, the
> mouse freezes as well.
>
> The only option available then is to press the reset button to reboot
> the system.
>
> There doesn't appear to be any specific application that causes the
> freeze. It typically happens when I have a largish number of
> applications open at once (say: Firefox, Eclipse, Thunderbird, Pidgin,
> Terminal, Putty), but I could be working in any one of the applications.
>
> This problem has been happening since I installed F7 soon after the
> official release. So I have seen this behavior with at least three
> kernels (including the last release a few days ago).
>
> My system spec:
>
> - CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo e6600
> - Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
> - Video card: Asus EN7900GS
> - kernel.x86_64 2.6.21-1.3228
For my problem, the CPU, motherboard and video card do not seem
relevant.
>
> All currently available F7 updates installed.
>
> Are there any known issues that may be causing this? If not, should I
> be reporting it as a bug?
I have a second user on my machine which we have been logging into
through the gdmflexiserver gui. When I am (user1), the original user,
and we switch to user2, his screen and the entire computer freezes,
panels don't work and some applications remove themselves from the
panel. I had to Ctrl-Alt-F2 to a terminal, login as root and killall -
u user2. I then had to reboot.
So, the problem could have been a bug with the user-switcher or gdm ??
Or,
When I checked his session manager, I found 'compiz' checked as a
startup application. I do not use compiz as user1, and user2 swears he
never used or tried compiz (??). In any case, I removed compiz from
session startup and haven't had a problem since. A bug in compiz -
perhaps
Not quite true, once every two or three months I get a freezeup while
using the email composer in Evolution. That problem was here in FC6 as
well as F-7 so probably not related.
>
--
Regards Bill
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