tblader spake the following on 3/22/2007 9:01 AM: > Hi All, > Just a follow up. Pulling out one stick (2 gig) of the 8 seems to > fix the problem. > > I ran into the most problems while installing Sun's Java > (jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.bin) while this is unzipping into /usr/local is > when > things consistently lock up. This is what I've been using to test > things. > There is sufficient disk space in the partition. > > I bypassed the prompt during the install and made a loop that removes > the jre1.5.0_11 directory and then just does sh -x on the > jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.bin. Leaving this run will lock the machine within > a couple loops. Removing 1 stick of ram , the loop continues to run at > least for 15 minutes before I terminated it. > > I've moved the ram around in different slots to see if it made a > difference, > as well as removed different single sticks to test. It seems the only > thing > that improves stability is to remove a single stick out of either the > channel > A or channel B slots. > > On the last test with all 4 sticks in, this message was printed to my ssh > session right before hurling. > > oas kernel: Assertion failure in __journal_temp_unlink_buffer() at > fs/jbd/transaction.c:1521: "jbd_is_locked_bh_state(bh)" > > Hopefully this all makes sense to someone more knowlegeable than I. > > Thomas > Looking online, there are many pages that mention problems with DDR2-800 memory needing the voltages turned up to 1.9 volts. Something else to try. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos