-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 April 2003 09:31 pm, Tod Liebeck wrote: > 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: So it doesn't appear to be a deadlock. > - 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. Sorry no usb devices here and I don't see any similar reports in bugzilla. > - 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) You might try asking about these on the xfree86 list (xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx) > - 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. There is a 1.4.2 beta available from Sun that might be worth a try. > I haven't seen a greater-than-average amount of trouble from staticly > linked apps, to the best of my knowledge. What is installed on the machines that isn't part of the stock distro, if anything? I know, not much help, sorry. - -- - -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+ngtun/07WoAb/SsRAj6dAJ9jvI24cWx9LbMtE6JZaLYc6aGgbwCfew6o h/DvgV0ajJ+M86tygoAyqRo= =/WWG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----