Fedora freezes suddenly; forced to..force shut down.

[the_fury]

I'm using Fedora 10 64-bit, with all the latest upgrades.

I'm on a Sony VAIO, if the model would affect any answer please let me know.

For some reason, while I am working, Fedora will suddenly freeze up: no applications will do anything, but for some strange reason, my mouse can move. It can't do anything, none of the buttons respond except for the mouse (and the power button).

If there is something you'd like me to post, then I can do that.

Thanks in advance.

[Deb]

looks like some process is eating up memory or cpu. running conky in the background might help to troubleshoot. I like conky thats why I told so you can do the same with other programs like htop etc.

[Aleaxander]

I got this trouble too.
but when it hangs, the only choice is push the REBOOT button and how can i run conky in the background at this moment?
and the fury, have you fixed it, by how?

[Deb]

Originally Posted by Aleaxander

I got this trouble too.
but when it hangs, the only choice is push the REBOOT button and how can i run conky in the background at this moment?
and the fury, have you fixed it, by how?

I mean, if you add conky to start as your session starts and if the conky variables for CPU and memory are set, next time the machine hangs it will throw up which process is the culprit-- Once I had this problem with Xorg and I had to downgrade, using an older kernel might help as well.

[AlexDudko]

There was already a thread about this bug with a solution, which though worked for me only partially. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...freezes&page=2

[the_fury]

Sorry I haven't replied in a while.......

No, I haven't been able to fix it.

Is conky in the yum repositories? I like to do things the easy way.... =P

[Deb]

Sure, it is in the fedora repo.
You would also like to have a look at the conky variables
My .conkyrc file is attached below.

[MuadNu]

I have the same problem... And I don't have an ATI card (actually an Nvidia 8400 GS), so I don't think the fix referred to above will help me.

I have conky installed, but when my system hangs it doesn't show anything special (I'm actually not sure if conky keeps updating at all, I'll check it next time).

[the_fury]

Originally Posted by Aleaxander

I got this trouble too.
but when it hangs, the only choice is push the REBOOT button and how can i run conky in the background at this moment?
and the fury, have you fixed it, by how?

Haha nice to know I'm not alone. And, you as you can probably tell, no, I'm still trying to figure it out.

ALSO: These hangups are occuring more frequently. It's also resulting in a longer boot time. (Used to be around 2 minutes, now it's probably like 5).

[bd54338rre]

i think it's the harddrive what cuases the problem

[the_fury]

Originally Posted by bd54338rre

i think it's the harddrive what cuases the problem

Any way to verify this or find out what exactly is causing the problem?

[MuadNu]

Originally Posted by bd54338rre

i think it's the harddrive what cuases the problem

Why? But anyway, I think you may be right. In my case, ever since these freezes started to occur (no too often to me at least), I'm also seeing that sometimes, when I try to save a file in Emacs in which I'm working, Emacs freezes and only after a few seconds is able to access the disk and save the file. I obviously don't know if the two things could be related...

[the_fury]

Just to repeat.... is there any way to identify this problem? I don't know of any way to check for hard drive problems.

[Hlingler]

Originally Posted by the_fury

Just to repeat.... is there any way to identify this problem? I don't know of any way to check for hard drive problems.

Yes:
sudo yum install smartmontools
sudo smartctl -H /dev/sd[a-z]

Insert correct device name(s), one at a time. Read: man smartctl.

V

[MuadNu]

This is happening ever more frequently and is starting to be extremely annoying. Anyone discovered what's going on?