I had a similar problem a few days ago, but I wasn't doing anything I/O intensive or anything, in fact the computer was idle as I found it locked up after unlocking the screen when coming back from lunch. Unfortunately I was at work and had stuff to do so I wasn't able to debug anything at that time. Florin Asavoaie, On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Anthony Vanover <anthonyisageek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That may be related, but it's definitely not the nouveau driver in my > case, since I don't use an nVidia GPU. Also, it takes a really long time > for it to finally switch over to terminal. You might try out the key > combo and wait a while to see what happens. Here's my GPU info: > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 > Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) > Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion dv6700 > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 > Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0a > <?> > Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile > GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c) > (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cc > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44 > Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] > Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] > I/O ports at 1800 [size=8] > Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] > Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- > 64bit- > Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3 > Kernel driver in use: i915 > Kernel modules: i915 > > 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 > Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c) > Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cc > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 > Memory at f8100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] > Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3 > > On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 08:32 +0000, > laptop-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:59:37 +0000 >> From: Camilo Mesias <camilo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: wizard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Cc: laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: GNOME 3 Freezing >> Message-ID: >> <CAEMMattPnXkjcDetAuEcSAV6gW4NFj12QnEC9yi-gTwGbjeqiA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Hi Anthony, >> >> I can sympathise, I have similar problems with my netbook. I get the >> impression that there is a bug in the nouveau driver which locks up >> the part of the drawing hardware and so stalls all output. I can move >> the mouse and the pointer moves but nothing else is drawn and the >> keyboard input is stopped also (no caps-lock light activity). >> >> Displaying video content seems to provoke the bug but sometimes it >> happens anyway. Sometimes you can watch a whole video without it >> locking up, maybe it's unrelated. >> >> If you can ctrl-alt-f2 to kill gnome shell then you might find >> ctrl-alt-backspace (which restarts the Xserver) might be a shortcut. >> >> I haven't filed bugs because I don't have an easy reproduced situation >> or any relevant log output :( If I hoped for a workaround I'd post on >> the fedora IRC channel, or fedora-devel mailing list, failing that I'd >> probably raise a bug on bugzilla. >> >> -Cam >> >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Anthony Vanover >> <anthonyisageek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > My CPU architecture doesn't support 64-bit. I would say that I do >> high >> > I/O Operations though. I have a 2TB Seagate external HDD and often >> move >> > ~60 gigs or so around, compress about that amount in 7z (encrypted), >> > bulk rename thousands of files, and some other things with scripts. >> > Also, I usually have several tabs in Firefox when this happens. If >> it >> > were lack of CPU though; I'd expect the effect to be immediate, but >> I >> > have the tabs open for a while without issue. >> > >> >> Message: 3 >> >> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:45:55 +0530 >> >> From: Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> To: laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> Subject: Re: GNOME 3 Freezing >> >> Message-ID: <1326006955.6689.24.camel@xxxxxxxx> >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> >> >> On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 22:12 -0500, William Henry wrote: >> >> > How many monitors are you using? >> >> > >> >> > It's probably not this - because you can get at the shell - but I >> notice sometimes my lock screen doesn't display the password popup on >> a monitor ( or more accurately displays it on a monitor it is not >> displaying anything on). When I type my password it unlocks and both >> screens then display as normal. >> >> > >> >> > William >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Jan 7, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Anthony Vanover >> <anthonyisageek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > > For some reason, Fedora freezes after an unspecified amount of >> time. I'm >> >> > > able to move the mouse but everything else is unresponsive. So >> I just >> >> > > switch to console <CTRL>+<ALT>+<F2> and use "killall -s HUP >> gnome-shell" >> >> > > in root shell (#). Haven't tested any of the other Desktop >> managers but >> >> > > I'm pretty sure this is the only one. >> >> > > >> >> > > -- >> >> >> >> Please file bugs. I haven't come across these situations while >> using >> >> gnome3. The screen freeze does happen if you're using a 64bit >> kernel and >> >> making high i/o related operations. Its a kernel bug, fixed in 3.2 >> > >> > -- >> > Sending sensitive information? Use PGP? >> > Then grab my public key available @ >> > anthonyvanover.tk/public.asc >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > laptop mailing list >> > laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop >> >> > -- > Sending sensitive information? Use PGP? > Then grab my public key available @ > anthonyvanover.tk/public.asc > > _______________________________________________ > laptop mailing list > laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop
