Description of problem: Fedora 14 beta on a Dell Vostro 3700 laptop (Smolt profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_970e240b-29c8-499d-a137-d645db440137) freezes within about 5 minutes of booting from a live CD. I am currently running Ubuntu 10.04 and that works fine, with no freezes, but I would really like to be able to run Fedora instead. Ubuntu has a 2.6.32 kernel, whereas Fedora 14 has a 2.6.35 kernel, if that makes a difference. I can test new kernels, but only from a USB stick as I don't want to replace the Ubuntu install until I'm sure Fedora will work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.35.4-28.fc14.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from the Fedora 14 beta live CD on a Vostro 3700 Actual results: Within about 5 minutes of booting the desktop locks up. Expected results: Fedora never locks up and is perfect in every way ;) Additional info: Smolt profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_970e240b-29c8-499d-a137-d645db440137
If this bug is similar to mine Bug 646317 then it's not the kernel version in and of itself so to speak, since it crosses from F12 to F14B I haven't tested releases prior to F12 though
Does this happen with the final release of F14 or with the F15/F16 livecds?
I believe it still happened with F15; I will double check tomorrow. I have not tried F16. For some extra (possibly useless) data points although Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (2.6.32) works fine, Ubuntu 10.10 (2.6.35) and 11.04 also freeze. This *may* indicate some change in the kernel between 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) and 2.6.33 (Fedora 13) is the culprit, or possibly something from Fedora pushed upstream between 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) and 2.6.35 (Ubuntu 10.10). I may be able to narrow down the Fedora release when it stopped working if I can find some old (Fedora 12 and prior) Live CD images, although this is a PITA to test as it does not freeze immediately. Contrary to Bug 646317, I am not using any proprietary drivers. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS works fine with the nVidia proprietary driver (again, probably a useless data point :-)
Forgot to say, I believe it still happened with F14 final as well. I will double check what I can tomorrow although I may only be able to try a few releases as it's quite time consuming.
I tested the 32-bit live CDs for Fedora 12, Fedora 13, Fedora 14, Fedora 15 and Fedora 16 alpha. This issue occurs with every single release. I also noticed that when I inserted a USB thumb drive the machine hung instantly. Actually that's not quite true - one time with Fedora 13 the machine did not hang when I inserted the USB drive, but it hung the next time. Otherwise the machine hangs after a while (was less than 10 minutes each time).
I tested Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 as well. Fedora 10 panics during boot - I'm guessing it's too old. Fedora 11 however worked fine! Or at least it ran from the live CD for 10 hours overnight without freezing. Also inserting or removing a USB stick it didn't freeze either. So it looks like the change that causes Fedora to freeze on this laptop was introduced between Fedora 11 and Fedora 12.
Same problem here with Dell Vostro3700 and FC15: [remke@localhost acpi]$ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch Distributor ID: Fedora Description: Fedora release 15 (Lovelock) Release: 15 Codename: Lovelock After i put in an usb stick the hole system freezes... Also had this problem using the latest Ubuntu (11.04) :((
[mass update] kernel-3.3.0-4.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. Please retest with this update.
What is the link to the updated live CD with the new kernel?
(In reply to comment #11) > What is the link to the updated live CD with the new kernel? There isn't on for F16. You can try roughly the same kernel with the nightly livecd images: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ e.g. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=3929744&name=Fedora-17-Nightly-20120324.12-x86_64-Live-desktop.iso