I've been having some major stability problems with my system since I upgraded to 2.6.12 (running Sid). I would have an occasional crash before, but I am hardly able to keep the system up for an hour at a time now.
I get an occasional Kernel OOPS, which usually foretells an impending crash. The crash usually shows a Kernel... "eep!", "eek!" or something along those lines which says that it is not syncing and it is killing init. At this point I have to resort to Alt+SysRq. Every once in a while the lock is so hard that I have to actually push the reset button. The error that I most often see mentions a problem in lib/radix-tree.c in the kernel. What's interesting here is that I have a 32-bit install on the same drive and I share most of the same partitions between installations. (/home, /tmp, and some misc storage partitions are all shared) When I boot into the 32-bit system, everything works just fine. The amd64 system, however, is very unstable. Most of the time the crashes happen during disk access. Not necessarily HEAVY disk access, just disk access. I believe that the problem might possibly be with my RAID drivers. (I'm running a 7000-series 3ware board) but Googling for all sorts of combinations has turned up nothing so far. Any suggestions on what to look at, or where to go from here would be greatly appreciated. I would downgrade to my previous kernel, but udev now requires 2.6.12 or later and I haven't been able to find a relatively recent version of udev that DOESN'T require .12 for amd64 anywhere. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]