Unfortunately the answer is "all of the above". :) I do not think I have experience a kernel panic yet, as in all cases I have still been able to ping the machine. So far I've experienced the following: - Kernel drops all support for USB. This is bad when you have a USB keyboard and mouse. This has happened several times on different machines. Plugging in a PS/2 kybd lets me reboot. - Complete freeze. X stops working, cannot switch to console. Cannot SSH into machine. Machine still responds to ping. This has happened twice, but only on one machine so far. (The other machine is at home, and has thus far been rarely used). - X crash. Running Matrox Millennium 2. Haven't seen one of these in a while (never w/8) - Java does crazy things. Sometimes it crashes, sometimes my servlet container can't extract JAR archvives. Other weirdness. Never saw this w/8, and I'm running the supposedly approved Sun 1.4.1_02 VM. I haven't seen a greater-than-average amount of trouble from staticly linked apps, to the best of my knowledge. Both my 9 machines are Athlons and are completely or almost completely SCSI. The hardware is all higher-end, well-supported stuff. Neither box had issues w/8, one of them had an uptime that is roughly equal to the number of days between the RH8 release and the RH9 release. Thanks for any help --Tod Liebeck On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 18:05, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----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----- > >
