Last week I was surfing along in Firefox and suddenly the mouse froze, and then a few moments later the screen went black, followed by the Thinkpad boot screen coming up. Fedora 16 x86_64 (all updates applied) had just crashed. When it finished rebooting I found nothing in var/log/messages or anyplace else I could think of to look. There were no other symptoms at all.
This evening it happened again, except that this time it happened when launching K3b. I had not done anything in Firefox for 15-20 minutes. Upon rebooting I note the following in /var/log/messages just before it died: Mar 12 21:25:07 Devil8 kernel: [184171.870772] traps: nautilus[10552] trap divide error ip:7f2eb1544638 sp:7fff72a0b3b0 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.3[7f2eb1511000+11e000] Mar 12 21:25:08 Devil8 kernel: [184173.142083] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.PRIM.MSTR - undocking Mar 12 21:25:09 Devil8 kernel: [184174.351575] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.PRIM.MSTR - docking I note that I am running Xfce desktop, although Gnome is also installed. I have never logged in with Gnome since Fedora went to Gnome 3. In the Xfce settings "automatically start Gnome services on login" is unchecked. I have no idea why Nautilus is running. A computer that just unceremoniously crashes is not tolerable. In addition (probably unrelated) just before the crash I find the following message over and over: Mar 12 21:21:42 Devil8 NetworkManager[1110]: <info> Auto-activating connection 'JJJ-2'. Mar 12 21:21:42 Devil8 NetworkManager[1110]: <info> Connection 'JJJ-2' auto-activation failed: (2) WPA Ad-Hoc disabled due to kernel bugs There is no JJJ-2 network. There is a JJJ wireless network. At one time, while struggling to get the JJJ wireless network running properly I created a JJJ-2 wireless network, which was later deleted. Since the laptop is always connected to ethernet wireless connections are disabled when at home. Yet it continues to try to autoconnect to a wireless network that does not exist. In Network Configuration I found a long list of wireless networks that I may have connected to (or tried to connect to) at one time, including JJJ-2. The GUI has no option to delete the network. There is a checkbox in front of each (all were ticked) in a column labeled "Profile," but there is no Help information for what "Profile" means or what will happen if I uncheck the box. I unchecked all but the ones I recognized as networks that I actually connect to. Any and all suggestions welcome. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
