debug system freeze

brian fedora at logi.ca
Fri Sep 11 00:34:52 UTC 2009


On 09/07/2009 01:28 PM, brian wrote:
> On 09/03/2009 11:11 PM, stan wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:24:21 -0400
>> brian<fedora at logi.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> I think I'm going to downgrade to 10, all the same. 11 has been way
>>> too big a mess on this box. :-(
>>
>> Compiling my own custom kernel fixed the problem for me. I tuned the
>> kernel options for my system, and it has been solid as a rock since (and
>> more responsive). I'm using the 2.6.30 kernels from updates-testing,
>> recompiled for my system, and they are working flawlessly. That's
>> probably a simpler option than downgrading. Using the instructions at
>> the link below, it is actually quite easy to compile a kernel. Once
>> you've done it once, it is almost routine. And if you save the config
>> file, you can just start from where you left off with the next kernel.
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
>>
>> Another alternative is to try the F12 Alpha live CD. If it works,
>> maybe you could hold out with F11 until F12 goes official.
>>
>
> I admit that it hadn't yet occurred to me to try SSH. I'll do that the
> next time it locks up.
>

It just happened again and pinging the computer from another box was 
unsuccessful. I'll look into re-compiling the kernel.




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