Description of problem: Upon boot before login, sometimes on login, sometimes at the login screen, sometimes after entering my login information, the mouse stops updating, the system pings but won't let me ssh in, and the keyboard is flashing the caps lock and scroll lock lights at the same time in a seemingly random pattern. Can't switch to virtual terminals, can't hit control-alt-delete or sysrq reboot, pressing the power button doesn't even work. I have to hold it down for five seconds to do a hard shutdown. System is a Dell Dimension 8200 1 GB RAM, PS/2 KB, USB mouse, GeForce 4 Ti4200, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, TI Firewire card, e100b NIC. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.21-20 How reproducible: Randomly Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot system 2. sometimes you can actually log in 3. wait until it happens again Actual results: random freeze Expected results: Not a random freeze Additional info:
for this report to be useful we need more information such as the actual crash data (might be in /var/log/messages) and the kernel modules you are using (lsmod will tell you that)
Created attachment 104583 [details] lsmod output
Created attachment 104584 [details] var log messages
It seems you have both the nvidia binary kernel module and the vmware kernel modules loaded. Please report this problem to Nvidia via their customer technical support, and they will likely address the issue in a future driver update. Thanks for reporting this problem to Nvidia. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73733 ***
Yes, I've been using the nvidia drivers and vmware since RedHat 8, 9, and RHEL 3 were released, all the while never having a problem; except when you would release new kernels or glibc's and not regression test them. The only thing that has changed in the last month is a new version of XFree and two new kernels from you. You'll excuse me if I'm skeptical that code that I've been using since before 2.4.18 kernels just all of the sudden out of nowhere made my system unstable. More so when others report that 2.6 and non redhat bastardised 2.4 kernels work fine.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.