Linux Stability on Dell Inspiron 15[45?] -- Fedora

StarGater93 — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:12:18 -0400

It seems that every few months of use or so (haven't really been keeping track to tell ya the truth >_<) my Fedora installation becomes really unstable. I'll be in the middle of doing something and then all of a sudden it freezes and locks the entire system. And unfortunately I need to boot up my Mac OS X iatkos installation (mostly unused due to fail drivers :/) to get my HFS+ directory (100GB partition currently containing essentially all of my Media...) out of read-only mode after having to force shutdown the comp.

Now this has happened to me on every distribution of Linux I have used for an extended period of time (probably a month or two at most = extended :/) on this laptop (Fedora 10,11,12 ; Linux Mint 7 ; Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Seems to happen ONLY at shutdown for some strange reason @Ubuntu 10.04 LTS unlike the Fedora distros...))

My Fedora 12 installation has currently became so unstable that I have started using my Ubuntu installation to wait for the release of Fedora 13.

Just kinda wondering if anyone knows what causes this and if there is anyway to stop it from happening. I don't necessarily need a fix to this problem unless its somehow serious like my Hard Drive failing or something (Only would work if this was Windows as Linux is too smart to not notify me of that lulz... plus this comp is just less than a year old.) but its still a pain in the ass, esspecially considering that I currently dont have a bootloader (due to Windows or iatkos, idk...) and im using the Arch Linux live CD to boot... Plus everyone loves it when you lose all your progress right? heh...

- was thinking of posting this on LQ but with this I figured, why not here? - after getting the e-mail

EDIT :

Computer in Question :

Dell Inspiron 15 (actually a 1545? (as in title)) Had it since around May 28, 2009 4GB of ram (running 32-bit OSes so only accessing around 3.4GB in most cases (although Ubuntu 10.04 is reporting 3.9GB so >_>...)), Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00GHz 300GB something Hard Drive that I had an issues with in the past (linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/…) (had this freezing problem ever since I switched to Linux though (1 week since I got this comp lol so idk about this thing happening in Windows...)) so yea...

LSPCI Readout 600 characters isn't enough :/ -

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

--StarGater93

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Linux Stability on Dell Inspiron 15[45?] -- Fedora