> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of James Moberg > Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 10:02 AM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Lock up problems under Kernel 2.4.20-28.7 > > Hi. I am not new to UNIX but am new to doing any kind of system > administration on it. Yesterday I decided to use the RH-Linux automatic > update feature on the gnome desktop. The first thing I did was to > update to version 2.4.20-28.7 of the kernel. I was using version > 2.4.18-3 of the kernel before. The download and update process worked > fine. After the install of the kernel was finished I rebooted the > machine and tested all of the applications that I use to see that > everything worked fine. They did. > > So seeing as how the first update went so well I decided to update the > rest of the outdated items listed by the RH-Linux automatic update > feature. At about 25% or 30% through the download process my screen > quickly faded to black. At first I thought my monitor died. After > switching another one for it I realized this was not the case. Then I > thought maybe the video card died. That was not the case either. So I > rebooted the machine and made sure everything worked fine w/Linux. It > seemed stable. So I tried to download the updates again. > > Luckily it started were it was when the machine went into limbo. About > the same amount of time passed and the screen turned black again. I > went through this for a total of three times before all of the updates > were downloaded and finally installed. Now any time I start up Linux > with the new kernel the machine locks up. This happens in either KDE or > gnome. > > Has anyone experienced this? Do I maybe need to do some Kernel tuning > and if so what would you recommend. I don't know how to do this but > like I said before I have been using UNIX for 8 years now and am not too > affraid to poke around. > > I am running RH-Linux 7.3 on an AMD AthlonXP processor running at 1.67 > ghz. I have 512 MB of ram and a 40 gig hard drive. Also, I do have the > hard drive partitioned off so that I can also run Windows XP (Sorry! > It's just a necessary evil). I used Partition Magic 7.0 to do the > partitioning. Up until this update I had no problems with Linux. If I > use the previous version of the Kernel things seem to be like before > which is problem free. > > Any help would br greatly appreciated because the system locks up after > 10-15 miinutes consistently. > I don't know what eventually happened, but it sounds like your machine was going into screen saver mode and all you needed to do was move the cursor, I might be wrong though. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
