On one machine, I was seeing all kinds of weird random freeze behaviour, lockups, EIPs terminating processes, etc... Around the sixth time one of these had quietly taken out sendmail and crond, I had finally had enough. After pulling down and building from a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel, the machine has been running flawlessly for a little over a week now. This same machine ran flawlessly under 8.1 with stock RH kernel and there were zero hw and bios changes made between 8.1 and 9. Machine description is a thoroughly unexciting: Athlon 700 on a Shuttle AI61 motherboard NVIDIA MX420 (using stock XFree with no 3D -- X gets very little use) 512MB 2x100GB & 80GB drives 48x CD-ROM Tulip Ethernet card Ensoniq 1371 The stock 2.4.20 kernel I'm running now is compiled nearly monolithic with only the USB drivers and input core as modules being that I didn't like watching rc.sysinit complain about the mouse and keyboard. ;-) My other Linux machines are Intel-based and have had no problems with stock RH9. Now as far as I'm concerned, my problems are solved in that the machine is stable again, but if this info adds another data point in helping solve the issue or if anyone needs more info, please let me know. -- -Jonathan <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -----Original Message----- From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Iain Buchanan Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:46 PM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: ATHLON & Shrike - *imperfect* alliance=random lockups? On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 07:45, Elton Woo wrote: > I'm running an Athlon Thunderbird 1.0, and seem to get random lockups > of the system. Among other things, the ability to logout or shutdown > from withing Nautilus (I still can't *reboot* from within my user account). Hm, I have an Athlon 2000+ at home and I'm getting similar problems... It was rock solid on 8.0, but with 9 it seems to do all sorts of wierd things. Seemingly any application can randomly 'freeze'. Closing and waiting for the 'do you want to kill this window' dialog does nothing, so I have to command line kill the process. After which the panel stops responding, and I can't do any thing with menu, and the Nautilus desktop icons disappear. I tried killing the panel (it reloaded successfully) but then various apps wouldn't load. I killed X (ctrl-alt-backspace) and after I logged in, it just 'froze' before the splash screen was even displayed. From this point, no user could log in (for the same reason). This happens with or without the Nvidia drivers, and all the latest up2dates. *sigh* -- Iain Buchanan <iain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to do a logical right shift? A: 33. 1 to hold the bits and 32 to push the register.
