Re: Gnome locks frequently - please read this if you see the same thing

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Ian T. wrote:

> Rob , Joakim, Tesla et all.
> 
> 	I use kde out of nesessity, and it too will crash in the same manner but 
> only once and only after Gnome has died in the same manner and then it seems 
> not to crop up again. 
> 
> 	Unlike Rob's problems, I'm not able to induce it by going back and forth 
> between vt and the gui on F7.  Mine dies right in front of me.  Mouse just 
> quits and the keyboard is rendered useless.  I can't get to a vt and the 
> input from the keys is nowhere.   It has always failed between any action of 
> significance.  It won't for instance freeze while opening something or 
> running something from the command line.  I can see no pattern at all. 
> 
> Tesla.
> 	I don't have the luxury of being on a network to pick away from outside.  I 
> do have an NVidia card but I have not upgraded to the 3d drivers.  I have 
> them downloaded though... but I'm thinking twice now..XFree86 standard 2d are 
> in use.  <g>
> 
> 	I am now to the point of having it crash badly enough that the journaling is 
> finishing up recovery then prompting me to run "fsck" manually then reboot 
> then journalling kicks in a second time before it will boot.  ;*(  

I have this bizzarro bug in the redhat bugtracker that looks like it 
could be related to this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57125

Can you guys take a look at it and see if your behaviour seems to fit the 
bug?

I have no idea what's going on, but it *does* seem hardware related.
Both of the machines in that report were Dells, and at least one of them 
spoke about NVidia drivers, so that may be leads to the link between the 
computers that act up.

If your problems seem to correspond to the bug, please enter some data 
about your hardware in the bug-report.

/ Alex