[CentOS] Centos Freezing

Sat May 17 01:18:37 UTC 2008
Robert Spangler <mlists at zoominternet.net>

On Thursday 15 May 2008 21:51, Karanbir Singh wrote:

>  Hi Robert,
>
>  Robert Spangler wrote:
>  > For some reason at different times Centos will freeze and not allow me
>  > to do anything.  This doesn't happen while I'm working on the system but
>  > after I have locked my session and then return.  It could goes days
>  > without a lockup and then the next time I try to log in it'll be frozen.
>  >
>  > I would like to know if anyone else has seen this or knows of a fix or
>  > where I could start to look to find out if there is a process or
>  > something causing this.
>
>  Not me, have not had such an issue. make sure you are completely
> yum-updated for a start.

Always.  Done nightly. :)

>  > I normally have the same programs running so I don't think it could be
>  > caused by me starting and then leaving something new running.
>
>  I guess the reason why no one has replied to your post so far is that its
> hard to work out or even think about such issues without some more context.
> Do you have proprietary drivers installed for anything ? ndiswrapper for
> wifi  ? grfx drivers for nvidia or ati ? Could there be a network issue ?

Only thing I'm running that isn't in the repo's is the nVidia driver for my 
Geforce FX550.

Oh, Thnx for the reply!!


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