Description of problem: System locks up completely during "normal use". By that, I mean having various applications open and browsing the web. It happened 4 times last week, but I still don't know what causes it. Curiously, last two times it happened during loading a pdf file from web in Evince pdf viewer. System stops suddenly and it doesn't respond to any key stroke or mouse movement. Also tried to login remotely with ssh but this also failed. No trace of the lockup in log messages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5 kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 How reproducible: Haven't found a reliable way to reproduce it yet. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: System locks up. Expected results: System shoudn't lock up Additional info:
Same thing happens with kernels: kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 The system hasn't frozen in the last 14 days and I had hoped this bug has been resolved by a kernel update, however, it happed again today with the latest FC5 kernel. I was working for 6 hours, I had firefox, evolution and a bunch of terminals open, the system started to use swap a little and suddenly the picture on the screen froze and I had to do a hard shutdown of my laptop. I really don't know hot to provide more info, because I can't ssh into the machine, the logs don't indicate anything, so it really is a sort of a 'hard' freeze. I hope this will get resolved soon.
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
I was hoping this was fixed with the latest kernel, but the crash happened again yesterday (after a quite long time (14 days or so)). The crash occured with: kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 on an up2date Fedora Core 5 system. When I was reading a thread "concerning X freeze recurring" (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-October/msg00343.html) on fedora-devel this month, I discovered I have the exact same problem with my Compaq Evo N800v laptop with Ati Radeon Mobility 7500 graphics card. The thread didn't have a definite conclusion, so I don't know whether I should close this bug and open a new bug against xorg or leave this bug open?
I'll reassign this to Xorg. Maybe this is a radeon bug after all. We can always assign it back to kernel if that doesn't turn out to be the case.
Update to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-1.fc6 seems to fix my problem, so this bug can finally be closed.