Bob St John wrote:
Folks,
I have an intermittent (but frequent) problem with FC6. At first I
thought it was a hardware problem, but now I don't think it is.
This is a dual boot system. Windows XP does not crash at all, but FC6
crashes frequently.
uname -a output: Linux Linux 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16
14:39:22 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Other facts:
- Memtest completes multiple passes without detecting any problems
- Both FC6 and WinXP are on the same hard disk (and since WinXP works
fine I don't think it's a disk or disk controller problem.)
- Same logic as above for the power supply.
- Logging in text mode causes no problems; logging in with either GNOME
or KDE crashes the system 99% of the time after a short period of time.
- The other 1% of the time FC6 seems stable for at least several hours.
In fact earlier this week it was up for 3 or 4 days with relatively
heavy usage with no problems.
- Periodically, in GNOME, straight but zig-zagged brown lines appear on
the display.
- As root, I can bring up the KDE environment but not the GNOME
environment. As other users I can bring up both GNOME and KDE.
- The crashes happen most frequently when I'm using Evolution, but since
I use that more than anything else this may not be very indicative.
- When crashes occur the display freezes but the mouse moves freely.
- When crashes occur the only thing I can do is physically power off the
machine. When I turn it back on it boots quickly with only this
indication of errors: "usb 1-3: cannot allocate device 2 error -110" or
something close to that.
- I don't know too much about Linux, but I see no error messages from
dmesg or in /var/log/messages
- Thinking that this has something to do with X11, I have deleted the
xorg.conf file and rebuilt it with system-config-display (several
times.)
So I'm at a loss at resolving this problem. Any suggestions?
Thanks . . .
Bob St. John
It does have symptoms related to a GUI problem. You can probably see if
there is any clues in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log or the
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old file if in text mode. Just use the .old file for
problems if diagnosing using the GUI. The /var/log/Xorg.0.log contains
info related to the current session and probably will not contain info
about the lockup. The old log should be the crashed session.
It could be the mouse interaction with X or it might relate to the type
of video hardware that you have on the machine. You might need the lspci
info with the video hardware information to allow others to be able to
help you better. I see you are using the 64-bit version so this might be
something that is specific to the 64-bit version.
Sorry no help, but a few suggestions however.
Jim
--
Nothing is as simple as it seems at first
Or as hopeless as it seems in the middle
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
