Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 198844
spontaneous reboots of Athlon64X2 desktop
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:27:53 EST
Description of problem: The last 3 rawhide kernels have been a bit of a pain to me, my box spontaneously reboots occasionally (not more than once a day), I can't quite figure out what it is that triggers the reboots. I'm just using the box normally on X (vesa driver on an ATI Radeon 9200SE card) when the screen goes blank and then, one second or so later, the BIOS reboot message is displayed. It occurred at least twice that the BIOS entered the BIOS flash utility instead. Asus A8V Deluxe MoBo, VIA K8T800Pro chipset. Is anyone else seeing anything similar? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.17-1.23{58,64,66}.fc6
I've seen it happen a few times too. The most I've managed to grab over serial console before its rebooted is indication that we're corrupting memory. I've increased the speed of my serial console, hoping that a few more clues make it across the wire before a reboot next time it triggers.
I haven't had these lately any more. I guess it's fixed...
And then, on the following day, I started having freezes again :-( Last one was a couple of hours ago, when I'd already set up a serial console, and nothing was logged, it just froze hard :-(
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
This bug has been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days since feedback was first requested. As a result we are closing it. If you can reproduce this bug in the future against a maintained Fedora version please feel free to reopen it against that version. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp