I'll give it a shot. I don't think it's failing hardware though, as the same problems occur on two different machines. Thanks --Tod Liebeck On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 18:13, Jack Bowling wrote: > ** Reply to message from Tod Liebeck <tliebeck@xxxxxxxxxxx> on Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:22:01 -0700 > > > 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? > > You can turn off NPTL entirely systemwide by adding the following word > > sysinfo > > to the end of the kernel load line in your grub or lilo .conf. BTW, most problems of this kind are do to failing hardware/hardware incompatability somehow. > > jb > >
