[Novalug] new one on me!

Chuck Frain linux@chuckfrain.net
Sat Oct 12 07:49:59 EDT 2013


I get this every so often when loading fb or weather.com's weather in
motion radar under chrome on my fedora box. Are you running the
propitiatory Nvidia drivers by chance?
On Oct 11, 2013 11:35 PM, "Mark Smith" <mark@winksmith.com> wrote:

> my 12.04 precise system went bat-shit crazy just now.  not sure what
> happened, but it was just after i loaded and ran google-earth?  anyway,
> the screen started blinking and it started acting like it was under
> high load.  i couldn't even switch to tty1 to login that way.  i finally
> managed to login from another terminal over ssh.  uptime was reporting
> a load average of 453.  that was a new one on me!
>
> i waited for about 10 minutes, but gave up waiting finally and reset
> the machine.  might be something hardware-wise wrong, but i don't know.
> software is getting so much more complex now.
>
> --
> Hei konā mai
> Mark Smith
> mark@winksmith.com
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