On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 02:19, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 01:22, 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. > > Well, what kind of crashes are you seeing? What applications are > involved? Have you recompiled the kernel? I'm running RH9 and haven't > had any instability problems, even when you consider that I'm running a > 2.5 development kernel. > > > 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? > > Well, some applications that rely on "errno", some old threading stuff > or ones that work at a very low level (as WINE) can get affected by the > NPTL/glibc changes. Normal applications should work fine. It would help > a lot if you tell use what applications are crashing. > Well if its anything like mine, its difficult to tell. The vast majority of the time, I am not doing anything interactively, so at most a compile is going on (apart from mail-server etc) So of course with a hard-locked system, its a bit hard to tell whats causing the problem (BTW - see bug 88866) > Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > Linux Registered User #287198 > >
