On Sunday, 29 October 2006 at 17:28, Joachim Frieben wrote: > For "FC6" and current "rawhide", I have observed recurrent freezes of > my "IBM ThinkPad T23" which seem to be related to file system access, in > particular when installing "RPM" packages. To rule out interference with > the "X" environment and system services, I have checked that this already > happens in single user mode by executing "rpm -i [rpm1 ...]". The system > freezes during the package install which sometimes implies corruption of > the installed package (fixable be reinstalling the package), but once even > caused unrecoverable corruption of the "__db*" files. > In the first time, I was thinking of some hardware failure (hard disk, > chipset, etc.) but a drive diagnosis run has completed without complaint, > and after installing "FC5" from scratch nothing of this kind ever happens. > It is noteworthy, that for "FC6" and current "rawhide" the network install > completes without the least hick-up which implies huge amounts of data > being transferred over the network and written to the disk. The trouble > only begins afterwards. > Has anybody else encountered this issue? A shot in the dark: prelink. Try re-running it or undoing and disabling it. Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski MPlayer developer http://rpm.greysector.net/mplayer/ "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
