Fedora Core 2 freeze after several minutes/hours

[Jim Cornette]

e98cuenc at free.fr wrote:
> Quoting Steven Op de beeck <steven at opdebeeck.org>:
> 
> 
>>e98cuenc at free.fr wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>I'm running FC2 on a PIII 733Mhz with a Powercolor graphic card (powered by
>>
>>an
>>
>>>ATI 7500).
>>>
>>>After a few (1-2) hours of use, it stops dead for no obvious reason (doing
>>>nothing CPU intensive, sometimes just reading a local html page with
>>
>>mozilla).
>>
>>Do the freezes occur while you are working? Or when you pc is idle.
> 
> 
> It doesn't matter if I'm working or not.
> 
> I'd already desactivated the screensaver, as I also though that it may be the
> cause of the freeze, but it keeps freezing.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 


This sounds to me what I've been experiencing.

If I use X for about 2 hours, it leaves whatever image that was there 
when X departed.

This problem is still there for later test versions. I tried smp and 
non-smp kernels and it still crashed in about 2 hours.

I tested the computer out for longer durations. Logging into terminals 
and doing commands to reboot and to save log files. If your failure 
seems to be similar. It would be great if you can help resolve this 
problem with your additions. It is for FC3T1, but I suspect these are 
the latest X packages.

When I close down X when not in use. Then startx the X wen work is to be 
done that is GUI related. I got a full work days worth of uptime. I'm 
sure that it would have run longer than that. This was with an SMP kernel.

I suggest runlevel 3 and dropping the GUI until it is needed.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128358

If this is not similar to your 2 hour crashes, I guess there are more 
variety bugs out there.

This is on a dell computer w/ multithreading. I don't know if this would 
be of any significance.


Jim