On my workstations, which never crashed running RHL8, Red Hat Linux 9 has all the stability of a Windows 98 box with a corrupted registry and dying power supply. I've been using RH since 4.0, and have never seen a release that is anywhere close to this unstable. I'm rapidly running out of options. A few more days with this level of instability and I'll be going back to 8.0 until 10 has been available for a while and appears stable. I just added "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" to my .bashrc file. I'm of the impression this will force applications not to use the NPTL threading libs. Any chance this will solve the problem of near-daily crashes with RH9? Best regards --Tod Liebeck
