Re: It Works fine... System lockups with F8 and Firefox

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Jeff Krebs wrote:
* Karl Larsen (k5di@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
Jeff Krebs wrote:
* Karl Larsen (k5di@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
After so many problems seen day after day it is nice I think to hear about a success.

F8 was installed from a DVD and came right up with a video problem cuzz I have a Nvidia video card. Fixed in 5 minutes with Nvidia binary. Then audio problems and found pulse audio the problem. I was told to yum remove and I did and audio is fine again.

I have had all the updates and they appear to be real Updates! So today December 10 2007 my F8 is working just fine. I have just one problem. I
I will mark this down on my calendar, and ensure that it's engraved in stone to pass down to historians. Such a feat was certainly unthinkable :)

seem to have a rootkit somewhere in the /home/karl/ directories. I have RTK and this afternoon I plan to find the thing, or discover I have no rootkit but rather another kind of problem.

Karl
How do you know that you have a root kit?


Jeff Krebs

I really do not know Jeff. But often, while using Firefox I get an attack that puts a cross hatch screen on and removes the keyboard and mouse, and puts a single tone out the audio channels and only a hard reset will clear it.

This is how I think a rootkit would work and so I got rkhunter and right now I am trying to get it to check /home but have not found out how to do this :-)

Karl


I don't think that's a rootkit.

Sounds like a nasty lockup to me.

Have you updated your system since initial install? My experience with lockups usually involves upgrading the kernel; either things go screwey after a kernel update (not common), or things are haywire until an update.

You could also have a hardware issue too. Memory can be checked with "memtest86". Motherboards? Dunno. Could be a bios update is needed.

Oh, and let's change the topic a bit...

Jeff Krebs

Thanks for the Subject change! I am at a loss to explain the problem. But I had an attack while just on F8 without the F7 old my login I have been using. So I think now no rootkit.

It could be xorg or it could be a lot of things. But will plan to continue to trace it down. It is quite a drag.

Karl
PS: will check the things you mention right now.



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