Fedora 7 freezes two or three times per day

[Karl Larsen]

Dawning Sky wrote:
> On 7/23/07, Rogue <roguexz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Dawning Sky wrote:
>> > On 6/21/07, William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> > DS
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>> 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.
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> DS
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	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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