Fedora 7 freezes two or three times per day

[Srikanth Konjarla]

I have similar kind of freeze issues. However, i could ssh into the box 
and run gdm-restart to bring back the sanity to the frozen laptop. So, 
this leads me to think that i have issues with nvidia proprietary driver 
(beryl is running too). I have a laptop (Tecra M5) with Core 2 Duo, 3G 
RAM with nvidia Quadro NVS 110M video Card.

Srikanth

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Langdon Stevenson <langdon at lindenrow.com.au>
> 
> | My Fedora 7 system is running well, except for the nasty habit of freezing two
> | or three times per day when I am working.
> 
> Your symptoms are non-specific: lots of diseases have the same
> symptom.  So you need more information.
> 
> You can read a few of my messages to the list about things to try.
> 
> - when a lock-up happens, try to ssh in from another computer.  If you
>   can, then it isn't a kernel crash
> 
> - boot with kernel parameter "maxcpus=1".  This may suppress the
>   problem.  Not a great long-term solution because you lose the use of
>   one of your cores.
> 
> - use a serial console to discover what's bugging your system
> 
> - use kdump and clash(8) to grab a dump when the kernel crashes and
>   then analyze that dump.
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-June/msg03592.html
>