RE: Fedora 7 freezes two or three times per day

Could there be a correlation between the amount of memory you have and the
freezes? I don't have FC7, but on a FC6 "pristine" installation my 4GB RAM
Dell machine froze very often until I took 1GB out. I don't believe the
specific RAM chips were at fault, but anything else could (including the
amount of RAM and/or something in the motherboard). Do you see the same
freezes with just 2 or 3GB RAM?

Emanuel

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From: Karl Larsen [mailto:k5di@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:31 AM
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: Fedora 7 freezes two or three times per day

Dawning Sky wrote:
On 7/24/07, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dawning Sky wrote:
On 7/23/07, Rogue <roguexz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Dawning Sky wrote:
On 6/21/07, William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm experiencing this freeze too. I've disabled irqbalance, put
"noirqbalance" in the kernel parameters, removed compiz. But my F7
system still freezes a few times a day.

It appears related to the desktop environment. I can leave it there
for weeks, with server processes running. But if I sit there and
using the desktop environment, it then freezes frequently.
Nothing in
the log files.

I'm running F7 x86_64, with AMD X2 and the latest nVidia driver.
I've
run memtest for hours without errors. The kernel version is
2.6.21-1.3228.fc7.

DS


Same here. I have these random freezes on my laptop and since I do not
have another m/c to access it, I am completely hosed :-(

The mouse & keyboard do not respond. I wanted to use compiz but
then the
system would freeze more often.

I believe the problem is strongly related to the graphics driver. I
have
a ATI M300 => radeon300 driver.

During the recent freezes, the only application that could have caused
an issue was Thunderbird's notification mechanism (which brings up a
popup)

This behavior is definitely not acceptable. But what frustrates me the
most is the absence of any logs!!!! (Arghhh!!) Any hope of logging
a bug
so that developers could fix the issue is lost.

Does any one know how I could capture these error messages? What
are the
parameters to generate logs for the graphics drivers?

thanks,
Rogue

I updated to the latest 2.6.22 kernel and my machine still freezes on
me. So now I'm using the "nv" driver. I'll see if it still freezes.

DS

I am interested in how your F7 freezes. I had a freeze
yesterday. What
happened I think was all the fast RAM got used and it was using the Swap
partition. I watched my hard drive light and it was on solid. I did
Ctrl-Alt F1 and in about 3 minutes it dropped to a prompt. But I was
unable to log in it so slow.

Does this sound like yours?


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No. Not at all. I have 4GB of RAM. And my freeze can only be brought
out of by a hard reset.

DS

Well mine also requires a hard reset to get back to normal. Your 4
GB
of RAM does make it harder to use up but it does happen. While your
computer is frozen look at your hard drive use.

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