Description of problem: Booting from USB install disk the system will completely crash. Unable to maintain an SSH session, change VTs, or otherwise interact with the system. It simply freezes completely. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 15 and updates up to 2011-05-07 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from USB install disk for F15 using standard graphics mode (not VESA plain graphics). 2. Run some apps, move some windows 3. Cry as the system halts Actual results: System freeze. Expected results: No system freeze. Additional info: I have looked through the standard logs in /var/log and there is no information from the time of the crash pertaining to any faults. I'm relatively inexperienced so if there are other ways to start debug modes and gather more data I'd appreciate being gently pointed in the right direction.
Futher information. I successfully installed the system via VESA mode and performed all system updates. Behaviour is unchanged. I also tried installing the NVIDIA proprietary driver from rpmfusion, but X complains that it can't find the NVIDIA driver. Using the VESA driver in higher resolutions also triggers the freeze. Running in basic video mode (low rez) appears to be stable.
Created attachment 497603 [details] sample crash occurs just after 21:00:00
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Some more notes about the bug. It manifests with the use of all drivers that I've tried: VESA, nouveau, and the proprietary NVIDIA driver. This obviously leads me to suspect it's not a driver issue. One way to trigger the freeze is to open up a standard window (I usually do this with a Google Chrome browser window) and drag the bottom right corner out to enlarge it. Before releasing the mouse button, drag it back in toward the upper left to shrink the window. The moment you start shrinking, the system locks up. It seems to crash more reliably when you stretch the window a lot than if you just enlarge a small window by a small amount.
I agree. Reassigning to the X server as it's the next likely candidate.
sounds like it could be a hardware issue. the server can't lockup the system with vesa unless the hardware falls over.
i would normally agree, but i hesitate to confirm because the system exhibits no such behaviour when running at the same resolution on Windows 7 or Vista.
ubuntu 11.04 and prior releases were also stable at 2560x1600.
so the nvidia binary is stable in old distros? and isn't stable in new?
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