Re: F13: New kernel release: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686: "Blue screen of death"?

2010-08-24 Thread Rick Stevens
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/24/2010 12:17 PM, JD wrote: > > On 08/24/2010 11:34 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> Previous kernel version was at least very stable, but > >> today, when I ran the new kernel release, going 45 > >> minutes into doing things,

Re: F13: New kernel release: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686: "Blue screen of death"?

2010-08-24 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/24/2010 12:17 PM, JD wrote: > On 08/24/2010 11:34 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> Previous kernel version was at least very stable, but >> today, when I ran the new kernel release, going 45 >> minutes into doing things, all of a sudden, my screen >> changed to a light-blue screen with the

Re: F13: New kernel release: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686: "Blue screen of death"?

2010-08-24 Thread JD
On 08/24/2010 11:34 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Previous kernel version was at least very stable, but > today, when I ran the new kernel release, going 45 > minutes into doing things, all of a sudden, my screen > changed to a light-blue screen with the Fedora infinity > logo in the middle and

F13: New kernel release: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686: "Blue screen of death"?

2010-08-24 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Previous kernel version was at least very stable, but today, when I ran the new kernel release, going 45 minutes into doing things, all of a sudden, my screen changed to a light-blue screen with the Fedora infinity logo in the middle and stop working completely. No activity whatsoever. Could not

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-08-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/05/2010 01:56 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 10:44 -0400, Alex wrote: >> As if to say, "F"-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with >> Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid >> blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-08-05 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 10:44 -0400, Alex wrote: > As if to say, "F"-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with > Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid > blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the > screen, and the whole computer locked

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-30 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:48 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > On 30 July 2010 14:31, Alex wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> I talked to the plymouth maintainer and he said this is a known bug; I > >> don't know if the fix is in F13 yet but let me explain what's going on: > >> > >> You've got two bugs. One is a ker

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-30 Thread suvayu ali
On 30 July 2010 14:31, Alex wrote: > Hi, > >> I talked to the plymouth maintainer and he said this is a known bug; I >> don't know if the fix is in F13 yet but let me explain what's going on: >> >> You've got two bugs. One is a kernel panic. The other is that when the >> kernel is panicking, rathe

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-30 Thread Alex
Hi, > I talked to the plymouth maintainer and he said this is a known bug; I > don't know if the fix is in F13 yet but let me explain what's going on: > > You've got two bugs. One is a kernel panic. The other is that when the > kernel is panicking, rather than showing useful debug information, it

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-29 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Alex, I talked to the plymouth maintainer and he said this is a known bug; I don't know if the fix is in F13 yet but let me explain what's going on: You've got two bugs. One is a kernel panic. The other is that when the kernel is panicking, rather than showing useful debug information, it is d

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-28 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday, July 28, 2010 22:06:22 Alex wrote: > > That's not really a BSOD, it's the Fedora boot splash screen. You can > > hit ESC and have the system print the text boot messages (uncovering > > them by clearing the blue screen). > > Nope, it was completely unresponsive. No network, keyboard

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-28 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > >> That's not really a BSOD, it's the Fedora boot splash screen.  You can >> hit ESC and have the system print the text boot messages (uncovering >> them by clearing the blue screen). > > Nope, it was completely unresponsive. No network, keyboar

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-28 Thread Alex
Hi, > That's not really a BSOD, it's the Fedora boot splash screen.  You can > hit ESC and have the system print the text boot messages (uncovering > them by clearing the blue screen). Nope, it was completely unresponsive. No network, keyboard, or mouse. No ctrl-alt-bs. The one time I saw it hap

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-28 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Alex wrote: > > There's nothing in the logs to indicate what may be causing this. I > didn't see it happen the last time, since the monitor was turned off, > but the previously it presented a blue screen with the F in the > center, and no mouse cursor. That's not

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-28 Thread Alex
Hi, >> As if to say, "F"-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with >> Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid >> blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the >> screen, and the whole computer locked up. > > Having a quick look. > What i

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 27/07/10 15:44, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > As if to say, "F"-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with > Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid > blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the > screen, and the whole computer locked up. Ha

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-28 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Thanks for listing to me rant for a bit. > > The crack about "these RHCE guys" is rather out of order. > > However, fair enough: everyone's experience is valuable.  But while > I'm not going to deny your problems, I just haven't had an experience > anything like that with any of my boxes.  

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-28 Thread Andrew Haley
On 07/28/2010 12:12 AM, Alex wrote: >>> Yes, frustrating, particularly when it's one fundamental thing after >>> another, like ethernet detection, printing, and basic networking. >> >> Sure, but it works both ways: sometimes getting up-to-date software >> from upstream fixes bugs that in a more "s

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, >  I suspect it to be the main source of instability: >  - directly >    I happened to visit some sites that were so "intensely heavy" in content >    that they could literally lock the FF (and the machine) for good. Perhaps >    the cause was HTML plus JavaScript plus intentionally "cleverly"

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, >> (5 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00) >> [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found. >> [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Try again with latest BIOS. >> >> The sixth core isn't enabled for some reason. >> >> It's a very recent board (Asus Crosshair IV) with the latest BIOS. >>

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Yes, frustrating, particularly when it's one fundamental thing after >> another, like ethernet detection, printing, and basic networking. > > Sure, but it works both ways: sometimes getting up-to-date software > from upstream fixes bugs that in a more "stable" distro you'd have to > wait mu

Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread JB
Alex gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > As if to say, "F"-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with > Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid > blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the > screen, and the whole computer locked up. > ..

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Robert Myers
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > >> Sounds like your machine started going into suspend / hibernate / >> shutdown. >> >> Did you close the lid? Did you set it to suspend on lid close? > > It's my desktop. I have the display set to turn off after 10 minutes, > but I don't think

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Andrew Haley
On 07/27/2010 04:16 PM, Alex wrote: >> that's kind of the point of fedora. if you want something stable, use >> CentOS (or RHEL) or maybe an ubuntu variant. I think the benefits of a >> cutting edge distro outweigh the drawbacks, but I agree that it is >> very frustrating when something fundamenta

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, > Sounds like your machine started going into suspend / hibernate / > shutdown. > > Did you close the lid? Did you set it to suspend on lid close? It's my desktop. I have the display set to turn off after 10 minutes, but I don't think it was even idle for ten minutes. The rest of the power ma

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Completely dead. Catatonic. Unresponsive. Nothing in the logs. > > you could reboot, switch to a text console (e.g ctrl f2) have a look > in $HOME/.xsession-errors, though I've you've logged in again already > it's probably been overwritten. my guess would be that something > killed your X

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 10:44 -0400, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > As if to say, "F"-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with > Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid > blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the > screen, and the whole comput

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Chris Rouch
On 27 July 2010 16:44, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > As if to say, "F"-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with > Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid > blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the > screen, and the whole computer locked up

Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Alex
Hi, As if to say, "F"-you, the screen changed from my normal desktop, with Firefox, Azureus, a few terminals, and a few VMs running, to a solid blue screen with just the Fedora squiggly 'F' in the middle of the screen, and the whole computer locked up. Completely dead. Catatonic. Unresponsive. No