-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 April 2003 07:22 pm, Tod Liebeck wrote: > 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? I have the Shrike running on several machines with no stability problems at all. By near-daily crashes, do you mean kernel deadlocks, or application crashes? More detailed info would be useful. What applications are causing problems? Are they statically linked by any chance? If so, adding 'nosysinfo' to your boot options might help. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+nf3gn/07WoAb/SsRApMPAKC9+W0Q3vYSOI9MPHS7ftSJ5R2rrQCfYBn8 dirgcNVMOd1H3GTw9vgLUSc= =PB07 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
