Re: F26 hangs or dies

2017-12-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Stephen Davies writes: I've been reviewing the system log after rebooting and find that the journald entries below are present in all cases. I do not know whether they are a cause or an effect. What do they mean? Dec 24 14:15:46 mustang systemd-coredump[5168]: Process 5132 (systemd- journal

Re: F26 hangs or dies

2017-12-23 Thread Stephen Davies
I've been reviewing the system log after rebooting and find that the journald entries below are present in all cases. I do not know whether they are a cause or an effect. What do they mean? Dec 24 14:15:46 mustang systemd-coredump[5168]: Process 5132 (systemd-journal) of user 0 dumped core. De

Re: F26 hangs or dies

2017-12-21 Thread stan
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 10:48:13 +1030 Stephen Davies wrote: > The killer apps seem to be Firefox and Thunderbird. Chrome seems OK. > > As soon as I start Firefox, performance declines and eventually stops. > > Thunderbird is fine so long as it is only doing email. But when it > starts a Javascript

Re: F26 hangs or dies

2017-12-21 Thread Stephen Davies
On 21/12/17 10:43, stan wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:28:43 +0100 Dirk Gottschalk wrote: Hi. According to the Message below I have to say I have the same issue. My system (a compaq notebook) freezes totally while I am using Firefox, Epiphany or SMPlayer. Checking anything else is not possible

Re: F26 hangs or dies

2017-12-20 Thread stan
On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:28:43 +0100 Dirk Gottschalk wrote: > Hi. > > According to the Message below I have to say I have the same issue. My > system (a compaq notebook) freezes totally while I am using Firefox, > Epiphany or SMPlayer. Checking anything else is not possible, because > when I am sp

Re: F26 hangs or dies

2017-12-20 Thread Dirk Gottschalk
Hi. According to the Message below I have to say I have the same issue. My system (a compaq notebook) freezes totally while I am using Firefox, Epiphany or SMPlayer. Checking anything else is not possible, because when I am speaking of a total freeze, I mean a total freeze. ^^ The graphics is an

Re: F26 hangs or dies

2017-12-20 Thread Tom Horsley
If it is graphics related, might be nouveau driver (if you are using an nvidia card). I had to switch to the binary nvidia driver from rpmfusion.org to prevent my display from randomly freezing up (though it was just the disply, I could still ssh into the system). I have seen some other mysterious

Re: F26 hangs or dies

2017-12-20 Thread stan
On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:28:18 +1030 Stephen Davies wrote: > It seems to have something to do with graphic apps such as > Thunderbird and Firefox. > After restarting yet again yesterday afternoon, I left the box alone. > Did not even log into KDE on the console but did all my work from > either an

Re: F26 hangs or dies

2017-12-19 Thread Stephen Davies
On 19/12/17 03:36, stan wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:49:47 +1030 Stephen Davies wrote: I upgraded from F25 to F26 yesterday and ever since have been seeing the system frequently become totally unresponsive. [snip] The only clue that I have seen is that top often shows very high wait I/O l

Re: F26 hangs or dies

2017-12-18 Thread stan
On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:49:47 +1030 Stephen Davies wrote: > I upgraded from F25 to F26 yesterday and ever since have been seeing > the system frequently become totally unresponsive. [snip] > The only clue that I have seen is that top often shows very high wait > I/O levels and swap space is someti

Re: F26 hangs or dies

2017-12-18 Thread Temlakos
On 12/18/2017 01:19 AM, Stephen Davies wrote: I upgraded from F25 to F26 yesterday and ever since have been seeing the system frequently become totally unresponsive. It seems to be quite random and can only be resolved by hitting the reset button to reboot. On other occasions it doesn't quit

F26 hangs or dies

2017-12-17 Thread Stephen Davies
I upgraded from F25 to F26 yesterday and ever since have been seeing the system frequently become totally unresponsive. It seems to be quite random and can only be resolved by hitting the reset button to reboot. On other occasions it doesn't quite die but starting anything takes several minu