Fedora 7 freezes two or three times per day

[Dawning Sky]

On 7/24/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >> >
> >> > DS
> >> >
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > DS
> >
>         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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> --
>
>         Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>         Linux User
>         #450462   http://counter.li.org.
>
No. Not at all.  I have 4GB of RAM.  And my freeze can only be brought
out of by a hard reset.

DS