Re: random crashes

On 2/26/11, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 20:02:26 +0100,
Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The crashes seem to happen more frequently when I'm doing something
interactively (even if it's just browsing, running yum). This morning
it was running for hours under heavy load with no problems, but
crashed a few minutes after I started interacting with it.

It seems I was too eager to find a clue: just now it crashed while I
was away (in the middle of installing a lot of packages).

That sounds potentially like a video driver issue. If you are using compiz,
you could try metacity instead as that does less 3D stuff.

No compiz here. And crashes happen without X running.

Nouveau seems better in F15, but upower tweaks an issue that causes annoying
screen flashes every 30 seonds and for at least some nVidia cards (including
an nv28 I have on one machine), the blank period is about 1/2 second.

Back in the summer, I was also suspicious about nouveau, until I tried
the nvidia driver...

Once the alpha release is out, you might try a live image of it to see if
that resolves your crashing problem.

In fact I'm planning to try a 32 bit F14 live image first, if I can
keep this thing alive for long enough to write out a cd (this MB
doesn't boot from a usb stick).

Andras
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