If you can, check to see what is happening to the temperature of the CPU when this is happening.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:04 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- John Sechrest . . . . . [email protected] . @sechrest . http://www.oomaat.com . _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
