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 the

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 up.

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 is

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-30 Thread suvayu ali
On 30 July 2010 14:31, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com 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

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 mysqlstud...@gmail.com 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

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

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 stable distro

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.  It's

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. Having a

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 is the host

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-28 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com 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

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

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-28 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com 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

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, or

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Chris Rouch
On 27 July 2010 16:44, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com 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

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 computer

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 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

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 fundamental stops

Re: Blue screen of death

2010-07-27 Thread Robert Myers
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com 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

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 much longer

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. Where is the

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 coded