On 27 July 2010 16:44, Alex <mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > As if to say, "F"-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with > Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid > blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the > screen, and the whole computer locked up. > > Completely dead. Catatonic. Unresponsive. Nothing in the logs. you could reboot, switch to a text console (e.g ctrl f2) have a look in $HOME/.xsession-errors, though I've you've logged in again already it's probably been overwritten. my guess would be that something killed your X session. If you're running f13 and have an nvidia card, then I've seen this too. The only way i got a working environment was to switch to nouveau and disable 3d eye candy. Anything else caused problems. (actually the f12 kernel + f13 nvidia rpms also worked on f13, but I decided that was a backwards step) if you have other hardware or are running f12 then this is something else (though looking in .xsession-errors is still valid). > > What the hell happened? > > This is really aggravating, because it has been one problem after > another, that's kind of the point of fedora. if you want something stable, use CentOS (or RHEL) or maybe an ubuntu variant. I think the benefits of a cutting edge distro outweigh the drawbacks, but I agree that it is very frustrating when something fundamental stops working. > and I'm beginning to rethink my decision on this desktop. > > Ideas greatly appreciated. > Thanks, > Alex Regards, Chris -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
