system hung

[Robin Laing]

Vano Beridze wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I run fedora 2
> uname -r
> 2.6.8-1.521
> 
> My uptime was about 10 days and today while working normally
> keyboard locked up. Mouse was working normally.
> Keyboard actually died.
> I tried Ctrl+Alt+Backspace,Ctrl+alt+del, ctrl+alt+f1,f2,f3,...
> nothing helped.
> The only way was to reboot.
> 
> I inspected /var/log/messages. The interested string is this:
> 
> Oct 19 12:24:29 iguana kernel: application mozilla-bin uses obsolete OSS 
> audio interface
> Oct 19 12:24:29 iguana modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command 
> for sound_slot_1
> Oct 19 12:48:47 iguana modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command 
> for sound_slot_1
> Oct 19 12:56:03 iguana last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 19 13:21:14 iguana kernel: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on 
> isa0060/serio0
> 
> These are the last messages just before reboot.
> 
> I'm really disappointed. I'm  really surprised with such things.
> One of the main things I prefer linux is the stability. No more blue 
> screens.
> Actually that was the case before fedora. I've never seen such an 
> unpredictible behaviour in redhats 6.2,7,7.1,7.2,7.3,8.0,9.
> 
> Sorry if I look like a whiner, but I just lost 2 hours of my work and 
> that makes me upset.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> P.S. It's just sad to realize that Fedora failed my expectations and 
> I'll switch to Gentoo.
> 

As I have the odd (3 times in 6 months) lockup just like you describe 
it would be interesting to see if you have noticed any other weird 
problems.

On my machine if I am playing a game, I will notice a routine stutter 
in the graphics.  I have just noticed this in the last few days.  I 
have also had my xmms just stop in mid tune for no apparent reason.

I cannot trace this to any one thing but I have a feeling it has 
something to do with a cron job or some routine cleanup process that 
is occurring.

I have no messages in any log and the computer continues to operate in 
the background.  The last time it occurred I was in the process of 
downloading some binaries off the Usenet and I left the computer 
running.  All the downloads continued.  My screen and keyboard were 
locked and only a reset would get me back to working.

On losing work, most programs have an auto save feature that prevents 
most of this.  I got into a habit of doing this when I tried windows 
due to constant crashes.

Remember Fedora is a development version of Linux.  I am still using 
FC1 and will upgrade to FC3 as FC2 came out just as I had finished 
getting FC1 just the way I liked it.

-- 
Robin Laing