Fedora 16: freezes every day!

[novettam]

Ok, I now realize I've been using chrome's built-in pdf reader for too long.
Using the Evince Document Viewer to read a pdf and scrolling the view for a while will trigger the freeze.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to further debug this/what other log files to look at, now that I can trigger the freeze when I want?


The output of /var/log/messages: (right after boot i opened a pdf scrolled... and the pc froze)

Dec 21 19:05:11 novasix dbus-daemon[1128]: ** Message: No devices in use, exit
Dec 21 19:05:16 novasix chronyd[1124]: Selected source 194.8.30.16
Dec 21 19:05:16 novasix chronyd[1124]: System clock wrong by 1.655192 seconds, adjustment started
Dec 21 19:05:43 novasix systemd[1]: Startup finished in 2s 82ms 166us (kernel) + 4s 519ms 422us (initrd) + 1min 22s 536ms 898us (userspace) = 1min 29s 138ms 486us.
Dec 21 19:07:35 novasix kernel: imklog 5.8.5, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Dec 21 19:07:35 novasix rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.8.5" x-pid="1174" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start
Dec 21 19:07:35 novasix kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset

Next i'm going to test if this happens in the Forced Fallback Mode.

[QuantumKnot]

Running a Hybrid SLI setup between an Nvidia GeForce 9400 and GeForce G210M.

I get freezes too when using the nouveau driver. The mouse still is able to move but I cannot select anything. Cannot run ctrl-alt-f3. I end up having to ssh from another machine and kill Xorg (since it is sucking up 100%).The proprietary driver didn't have these issues but gnome shell was really slow and choppy.

[Donald Winslow]

I had some trouble with the desktop freezing in KDE. It seems to be related to a large (1TB) Western Digital USB drive that I sometimes have plugged in. Everything works fine for a couple of hours after I have connected the USB drive, then everything freezes. When I unplug it, everything starts working. Maybe Nepomuk indexes the USB drive and causes the freeze.

[Uranio23]

Originally Posted by deanej

For me it's the Realtek wireless card; doesn't freeze if I turn it off.

For me is all the opposite I have a USB WiFi adapter (RTL8187) and before Gnome3 I had no problems with it ... now with Fedora 16 and Gnome3 I can't leave my laptop without the USB adapter plugged. Let me explain, if I turn it on without the WiFi adapter gnome-shell fails to start ... I can move the mouse but only the wallpaper is displayed on the screen ... at this point I have to use a tty (Ctrl + Alt + F3) and reboot from it.

After the reboot if I plug the usb wifi adaprter the system boot normal and gnome-shell runs fine (a bit slow due to my old hardware X1200 integrated ATI )


I'm really confused by this behavior ... I'm almost sure it's related to "NetworkManager" because if I boot the system in the "right" way (with the usb wifi adapter) but disable NetworkManager from the terminal with " service NetworkManager stop " it freezes again ...

I haven't read anyone have the same issue ... Haven't had time to test this with a wired connection ...

[sukool]

i am having similar problems. cant do anything , may be ATI driver issue ?
i have created new thread earlier it has all the details of the problem <<link>> , sorry folks. but this is also related thread.
hope some one could find some answers.

[ninjagaiden]

So today Fedora 16 froze again on my Thinkpad T510. A Complete freeze, cannot change to tty with crtl+alt+Fn keys and I had to power off the machine.

I am running Fedora 16 with KDE (kernel: 3.2.5-3.fc16.x86_64), did a complete new install a few weeks ago. Have the newest updates and the kmod-nvidia driver. Also use an external monitor connection to my laptop, the only non-KDE programs I had running were conky, pidgin, and tomboy.

My /var/log/messages is full of messages about:
Feb 15 03:04:49 computer dbus-daemon[1059]: ** (upowerd:1388): WARNING **: Property get or set does not have an interface string as first arg
Feb 15 03:04:49 computer dbus-daemon[1059]: ** (upowerd:1388): WARNING **: Property get or set does not have an interface string as first arg

These are the only entries close to the point of the hard freeze.

It is really puzzling and frustrating.

[goodfella]

Same thing has been happening to me. Not on my IBM ThinkPad. Only a desktop with a ATI Radeon 9500
card. Usuallyhappens when using firefox and browsing the web. Hate to say that the desktop does not
hang when running Windows XP. If you have hangs then look at your log file:

/var//log/Xorg.0.log.old

[ 1220.563] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[ 1220.563]
Backtrace:
[ 1220.592] 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x3c) [0x80a869c]
[ 1220.592] 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (mieqEnqueue+0x175) [0x81ac2e5]
[ 1220.592] 2: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x43882) [0x808a882]
[ 1220.592] 3: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86PostMotionEventM+0xf2) [0x80dbbd2]
[ 1220.592] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0xb70bb000+0x343e) [0xb70be43e]
[ 1220.592] 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0xb70bb000+0x492f) [0xb70bf92f]
[ 1220.592] 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0x7f5f0) [0x80c65f0]
[ 1220.592] 7: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8047000+0xa60bb) [0x80ed0bb]
[ 1220.592] 8: (vdso) (__kernel_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb773d400]
[ 1220.592] 9: (vdso) (__kernel_vsyscall+0x10) [0xb773d424]
[ 1220.593] 10: /lib/libc.so.6 (ioctl+0x19) [0x454c6639]
[ 1220.593] 11: /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (drmIoctl+0x34) [0x47787a64]
[ 1220.593] 12: /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (drmCommandWriteRead+0x3d) [0x4778a44d]
[ 1220.593] 13: /usr/lib/libdrm_radeon.so.1 (0xb7549000+0x15d2) [0xb754a5d2]
[ 1220.593] 14: /usr/lib/libdrm_radeon.so.1 (0xb7549000+0x1844) [0xb754a844]
[ 1220.593] 15: /usr/lib/libdrm_radeon.so.1 (radeon_bo_map+0x1b) [0xb754be4b]
[ 1220.593] 16: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so (0xb7571000+0xa54dc) [0xb76164dc]
[ 1220.593] 17: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0xb7532000+0x4fbb) [0xb7536fbb]
[ 1220.593] 18: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0xb7532000+0x52fe) [0xb75372fe]
[ 1220.593] 19: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0xb7532000+0x7533) [0xb7539533]
[ 1220.593] 20: /usr/lib/xorg/modules

I rebuilt libdrm-2.4.31 and installed. No hang yet.

[robert4man]

Running in Forced Fallback Mode avoided this issue for me.

System Settings -> search for System Info -> Graphics -> Forced Fallback Mode = On; then reboot

You lose all the fancy Gnome3 shell UI stuff, but at least it doesn't freeze up. Looks a lot like Gnome2, but not quite.

[goodfella]

Have also had sudden black screens.

[lemac]

Originally Posted by novettam

Ok, I now realize I've been using chrome's built-in pdf reader for too long.
Using the Evince Document Viewer to read a pdf and scrolling the view for a while will trigger the freeze.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to further debug this/what other log files to look at, now that I can trigger the freeze when I want?


The output of /var/log/messages: (right after boot i opened a pdf scrolled... and the pc froze)

i had the same problem, 4-5 freezes a day

I configured the BIOS [Asus P6T SE],
* disabled the auto overclocking & speedstep tech.
* set the correct RAM freq. (1333MHz)
* Disabled ACPI and enabled ACPI 2.0
**on my pc it was the ACPI APIC Support try to disable it (win7 can't start after this )

no freezes up to now, i can even scroll a 500page pdf without errors

[whatever2k]

I'm having this problem on a HP DM1Z-4000. Only recovery I've found yet is a hard power cycle.