On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 16:02 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 14:17 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Martin Sourada > > <martin.sourada@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 00:07 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > > >> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Adam Williamson > > >> <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > > >> Check kernel logs and X logs after rebooting, see if there's > > >> crash > > >> notifications in either. (You'll want to look > > >> at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old > > >> rather than Xorg.0.log). What's the gfx card? > > >> Thanks, I'll check that out, though I doubt that there'll be > > >> anything... I have intel 945. Another interesting thing is, I logged > > >> into a different account (which I use to testing/playing around) that > > >> currently has gnome-shell (as opposed to composited metacity) and so > > >> far after more than an hour no freeze. I'll see if it's still running > > >> tomorrow. > > >> > > > Ok, that wasn't it. It froze in gnome-shell as well. In the exactly same > > > moment when external USB HDD was waking up (initiated by ls -l on some > > > folder in it). So over night I run full fsck on it. No errors reported, > > > but right now it seems to work (at least I wasn't able to reproduce the > > > freeze in single user mode, I'll see if it appears again in init 5). > > > > > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log* and /var/log/messages show no traces about the > > > freeze. > > > > > So it appeared again, after several hours of usage (so it's much > > better than it initially was), this time in gnome-screensaver. The USB > > drive appeared to be running, so I guess kernel was frozen as well. > > > So, after slowly eliminating possible causes, I came to (uncertain) > conclusion that f14 kernel does not like my network card (i.e. unless I > missed something, the only time I wasn't able to reproduce this yet is > without network cable plugged in). It also seems the freezes have got a > lot less frequent (but that might be purely coincidental). > > Kernel: > kernel-2.6.35.4-28.fc14.i686 > > Network card: > 06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX > (rev 02) > Just FYI that I finally updated to a kernel that does not seem to suffer from this (which is sadly in koji only): $ uname -r 2.6.35.6-36.fc14.i686.PAE $ uptime 22:11:38 up 3 days, 4:19, 10 users, load average: 1.40, 1.67, 1.80 Not sure if PAE could play any role in this -- I installed the PAE version just for the heck of it (I don't have that much of memory to be actually in need of the PAE)... Martin
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