Strange freezes on Fedora 5

[Filippos Klironomos]

Could you specify more on the system specifics? What type of hardware? I
have a Dell XPS that had regular freezes under FC5 and looking around the
internet I found that passing the "noapic" argument
on the kernel command line in /boot/grub/grub.conf has (up to now) solved
the problem.

This might be a good starting point for you as well. The enties that you
pasted below from /var/log/messages seem perfectly fine.  Try to look for
error/warning/fail messages. My problem
was closely associated with a message like this:

ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24


Hope this helps.
Filippos


On 4/19/06, Thomas Widhalm <widhalmt at unix.sbg.ac.at> wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> I already managed to get my girlfriend leaving windows and using linux.
> Unfortunately this is the only occurence where a system freezes on a
> regular basis.
>
> Whenever she leaves the system a little bit (and once, while she worked)
> the system freezes. To my suprise the one time it happened, when she was
> working, the screen went to power save some time after it. I can't
> connect via ssh to the system  when this occurs. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
> won't work, switching to another console neither.
>
> We have Fedora Core 5 with KDE. Attached to 2 SuSE server, where I mount
> the homes ( I made extra /home/fc5 directories which I mount as /home on
> the fedora box, so I won't mount a SuSE home. I also mount /home of the
> servers as /suse_home on fedora, so I can make a symbolic link to the
> suse homes into the fedora homes ) and have a NIS server running.
>
> /var/log messages won't tell me any interesting things. Neither on the
> fedora box, nor on the servers. The only thing which get's me worried a
> bit is:
>
> Apr 19 09:55:52 snoopy gconfd (ina-2746): (Version 2.14.0) wird
> gestartet, Prozesskennung 2746, Benutzer »ina«
> Apr 19 09:55:52 snoopy gconfd (ina-2746): Die Adresse
> »xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory« wurde an der Position 0 zu
> einer nur lesbaren Konfigurationsquelle aufgelöst
> Apr 19 09:55:52 snoopy gconfd (ina-2746): Die Adresse
> »xml:readwrite:/home/ina/.gconf« wurde an der Position 1 zu einer
> schreibbaren Konfigurationsquelle aufgelöst
> Apr 19 09:55:52 snoopy gconfd (ina-2746): Die Adresse
> »xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults« wurde an der Position 2 zu
> einer nur lesbaren Konfigurationsquelle aufgelöst
>
> Which is German for:
> xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory« gets resolved on position 0
> as a readable configuration source
> »xml:readwrite:/home/ina/.gconf« gets resolved on position 1 as a
> readable and writable configuration source
> »xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults« gets resolved on position 2
> as a readable configuration source
>
> Could anybody give me a hint, where I could look further.
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas Widhalm
>
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