Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 62184
linux crashes when running gnome console window
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; DigExt) Description of problem: I was using the gnome console window in Red Hat Linux 7.2 and the system froze, when it was restarted i had lost support for the sound card, thinking that i must have corrupted a file or something i wiped the hard drive and reinstalled red hat linux 7.2, after a little while the same thing happened in the gnome console window and i lost my sound card, i have reinstalled red hat linux 7.2 4 times since that and the same thing has always happened, however when i use red hat linux 7.1 i never get this problem Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use the GNOME console window, after a little while it will happen, but not always 2. 3. Actual Results: the system froze and i lost the sound card Expected Results: exactly what's in the actual results window Additional info: System: Celeron 400 (Mendocino Core) 128mb SDRAM @ 60 mhz FSB GIGABYTE MOTHERBOARD (VIA KT133A) WD 40gb 7200rpm ATA/100 hard disk
System crash, -> kernel or X. We're going to need to know about your hardware in detail; what model of sound card, video card, computer, etc.
hi my name is yorgos, thank you for responding so quickly, anyways i'm not real\ly sure if the freeze is to do with X or the kernel, i only said it was the gno\me-core because it always happens on the gnome console (which is a gnome-core p\rogram), i'm a bit of a newbie to linux and i don't know much, all i know is th\at it didn't ever happen on Red Hat 7.1, so it must be something to do with a p\iece of code that has been changed since 7.1 (mind you heaps has probably chang\ed), as for the computer it's custom made by myself here are the specs: Celeron-A 400mhz (Mendocino Core, Socket 370) @ 66mhz FSB 128mb SDRAM (100mhz MAX speed) @ 60mhz FSB Gigabyte GA-67XC7-4X-P (Rev 5.x) Motherboard (I was wrong about the chipset bef\ore it is a VIA 694X+686B Chipset) Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400 AGP OEM (I have tested the problem with both the drivers\ supplied with Red Hat Linux and the Official Nvidia drivers to see if they aff\ected anything, it seems they have nothing to do with it) Creative Labs SBLive! Value (EMU10K1, Using drivers supplied with Red Hat Linux\) Western Digital 40GB 7200RPM ATA100 (Currently running Windows XP Pro) Fujitsu 6.4GB Hard Disk (Don't know any more that that, running Red Hat Linux 7\.2) Standard 3 1/2 Floppy Disk Drive Delta 48X max CD-ROM drive How I boot: Instead of using a boot manager like LILO or GRUB i use a boot disk to boot Lin\ux off the 2nd Hard Drive, in the installation i simply tell it not to use any \boot managers and to create a boot disk Partition Info: I use the auto partioning function of the Red Hat Installer I hope all this helps! From Yorgos
I have worked out what the problem is, it is not the console that has the problem, but the entire gnome-core, I did some testing to see if the problem would arise in other programs, and it did, the 2 that crash the most are Nautilus and the gnome-console, but i also got the problem while playing GNOME Nibbles. I suspect it has something to do with the Red Hat Distribution of GNOME 1.4, the problem never arises when using KDE as the GUI, so it must be something to do with GNOME, as for the sound system problem, sometimes when the computer crashed the computer would be in the middle of playing a sound, so the drivers must corrupt, and that is why you lose the sound system.
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