On Wednesday 27 October 2004 14:13, Stew Benedict wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > > > As a last resort I re-installed 10.1 CE from scratch,
> > > > copied nothing back from my backup CDs, updated available
> > > > rpms and tried anew. Still staring at my runaway box.
> > > >
> > > > I have reached the point of considering a switch to some
> > > > other distro, maybe Fedora or Debian.
>
> You might try disabling harddrake and hotplug, as part of your
> testing. This would also help you tell whether it's the kernel or
> other apps dragging the box down.
>
> chkconfig --del harddrake
> (this will disable probing for new devices at boot)
> chkconfig --del hotplug
> (this will disable anything from running at the insertion of the
> device)
>
> Now you may need to modprobe appropriate modules to make the
> device visible in dmesg.
> If the box still panics, then it's definitely the kernel.
>
> You can re-enable with 'chkconfig --add foo' (replace foo
> appropriately)
Thanks, Stew. I will try it ASAP. Things are a little slow here,
what with the CPU constantly running at 99%. See you after next
reboot.
Kaj Haulrich.
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