Fedora 7 freezes two or three times per day

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue Jun 19 16:39:38 UTC 2007


On 6/18/07, Langdon Stevenson <langdon at lindenrow.com.au> wrote:
> My Fedora 7 system is running well, except for the nasty habit of
> freezing two or three times per day when I am working.  First: all
> windows stop responding to the mouse and key board, then soon after, the
> mouse freezes as well.
>
> The only option available then is to press the reset button to reboot
> the system.
>
> There doesn't appear to be any specific application that causes the
> freeze.  It typically happens when I have a largish number of
> applications open at once (say: Firefox, Eclipse, Thunderbird, Pidgin,
> Terminal, Putty), but I could be working in any one of the applications.
>
> This problem has been happening since I installed F7 soon after the
> official release.  So I have seen this behavior with at least three
> kernels (including the last release a few days ago).
>
> My system spec:
>
> - CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo e6600
> - Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
> - Video card: Asus EN7900GS
> - kernel.x86_64 2.6.21-1.3228
>
> All currently available F7 updates installed.
>
> Are there any known issues that may be causing this?  If not, should I
> be reporting it as a bug?
>
> Regards,
> Langdon


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