How to resolve constant freezing of Fedora 12?

[ragavendra_bn]

I updated to kernel 2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10.x86_64 recently. The system hangs now & then with a beep before the hang. I have F10.
I just tried Magickman's post solutions. Since firefox was being used & may be I had youtube also opened most of the times whenever it hung. Lets see.
the dmesg is here --> http://pastebin.com/f6ec3e3c5

[tashirosgt]

I've had system lock-ups on FC 12 x86_64 ( 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Noveau driver and Nvidia graphics) By "lock-ups" , I mean that the system was so unresponsive that the numlock key didn't respond and CTRL-ALT-F2 didn't bring up a console. I've also had peculiar behavior where the system responded slowly with much hard drive activity, as if it had suddenly run out of memory and was swapping every time I did something.

I think these problems were caused by using Firefox. I switched to Opera and haven't had them again (yet). The /var/log/messages log was showing kenerl "oops" messages, as posted in the thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=240530

Have any of the participants in this thread see similar messages in their logs?

[Nokia]

Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 abrt: Kerneloops: Reported 10 kernel oopses to Abrt
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 abrtd: Directory 'kerneloops-1267154234-10' creation detected
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 abrtd: Getting local universal unique identification
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 abrtd: New crash /var/cache/abrt/kerneloops-1267154234-10, processing
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 abrtd: Registered Action plugin 'RunApp'
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 abrtd: RunApp('/var/cache/abrt/kerneloops-1267154234-10','test x"`cat component`" = x"xorg-x11-server-Xorg" && cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log .')
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [#9] SMP 
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.4/0000:03:0e.0/local_cpus
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: CPU 1 
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: Modules linked in: fuse sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand powernow_k8 freq_table ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 microcode uinput snd_hda_codec_atihdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device ppdev snd_pcm snd_timer parport_pc snd amd64_edac_mod r8169 parport soundcore shpchp edac_core mii snd_page_alloc i2c_piix4 wmi firewire_ohci ata_generic firewire_core pata_acpi dm_multipath usb_storage crc_itu_t pata_atiixp radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: Pid: 2961, comm: abrtd Tainted: G      D W  2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64 #1 GA-MA790GPT-UD3H
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810f36e2>]  [<ffffffff810f36e2>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x82/0x11c
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff880109249da0  EFLAGS: 00010002
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 6f5f726566667562 RCX: ffffffff81018d32
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000006a1 RDI: ffffffff8157ba3e
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: RBP: ffff880109249de0 R08: ffff8800280510c0 R09: 0000000000000002
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: R10: 00000000000000ff R11: 0000000000000a1b R12: ffffffff816702b0
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: R13: 00000000000000d0 R14: 00000000000000d0 R15: 0000000000000200
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: FS:  00007f9d2c00a800(0000) GS:ffff88002803f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: CR2: 00007f9d24da1000 CR3: 000000012a9ef000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: Process abrtd (pid: 2961, threadinfo ffff880109248000, task ffff88010d4ede00)
Feb 25 20:17:14 comp09 kernel: Stack:

There's no clear indication here that Firefox has anything to do with it. Also, why do you *still use the .31 kernel ?

[tashirosgt]

Originally Posted by Nokia

Also, why do you *still use the .31 kernel ?

I just use whatever kernel the yum update command gives me.