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by: djgruby December 27, 2012 3:53 AM PST

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by djgruby - 12/27/12 3:53 AM

Hi!

Since some time my PC hangs unexpectedly without any rule behind it. That means it may work perfectly fine for several hours, sometimes only for several minutes... And then it crashes with the following screen being displayed on my monitor (I took a photo of it, as I have no clue about other way of capturing this content):

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http://s1.postimage.org/wcs60qscv/IMG_1911_2.jpg

Can anybody please give me a hint, what might be the cause of this problem or what kind of troubleshooting could I perform? I suspect hardware malfunction, but which component could it be? The only one thing I am sure of is that these are not HDDs, since SMART tests complete without errors... And I am stuck here...

Many thanks in advance for your help!

Best regards,
DJ Gruby.


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Re: hardware malfunction

by Kees_B Moderator - 12/27/12 4:05 AM

In Reply to: PC hangs unexpectedly without any rule behind it by djgruby

Try the memory test from http://www.memtest86.com

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Re: Re: hardware malfunction

by djgruby - 12/27/12 4:12 AM

In Reply to: Re: hardware malfunction by Kees_B Moderator

Ah, forgot to mention that I have tried memtest86+ already. It went for three full rounds without errors. Thank you very much for your suggestion!


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Pretty sad really.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 12/27/12 6:56 AM

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https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=general+protection+fault+0000+6+smp finds this.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861837

"Bug in vmware modules. We can't fix that."

Just wondering, what do people do in such situations?
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Seems like I have found reason/solution of this problem

by djgruby - 12/29/12 11:36 AM

In Reply to: Pretty sad really. by R. Proffitt Moderator

Hey! Thanks a lot for your suggestions. This might sound like a mystery, but it seems like someone else has found the source of instability, which was the bluetooth service... I uninstalled it two days ago, and I have not experienced any crash ever since. So, at the moment my system (Fedora 17) is running fine and stable... I will keep on monitoring it, and if the crash reappers, I will post an update here... However, so far so good. Thanks a lot for help!


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