Re: [Cooker] kernel 242 is the culprit

2001-04-01 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:31:35AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > I don't think cooker is quite at a deep enough > > freeze to exclude that yet? > > *NO* freeze should be deep enough to prevent the replacing of a buggy > kernel! Fixing a bug

Re: [Cooker] kernel 242 is the culprit

2001-03-31 Thread R.I.P. Deaddog
I missed this post. I have the same situation too, and it isn't so nice to me that Ctrl-Alt-Del can do it. My situation is so bad that I have to use Alt-SysRq-B to reboot... :( My hangup is much more random sometimes freeze at,say 2 minutes, after reboot(just after started X); and someti

Re: [Cooker] kernel 242 is the culprit

2001-03-30 Thread Chris Wenny
Yes, 2.4.2 is still buggy. If youre running Promise PDC202xx IDE controller, theres a chance for lockups. 2.4.2-12mdk works fine for PDC202xx. No lockups so far for me. I suggest you subscribe to the kernel ML and find out which release works best for your hardware. This, I think, doesn't warrant

Re: [Cooker] kernel 242 is the culprit

2001-03-30 Thread Steve Fox
On 31 Mar 2001 01:31:35 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > There have been some posts here about machines hanging with > reiserFS. As I mentioned earlier I've been getting these [snip] I posted the below a couple days ago with no response. I believe it may be tied to your situation. -

Re: [Cooker] kernel 242 is the culprit

2001-03-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Simon Peter Nicholls am Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 04:48:18PM +0100: > I'm not sure the problem has been for all versions of 2.4.2 - don't > remember a problem before -20mdk. Yes, right. I'm now back at 2.4.2-16mdk and everything is working smooth again. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote:

Re: [Cooker] kernel 242 is the culprit

2001-03-30 Thread Simon Peter Nicholls
I'm not sure the problem has been for all versions of 2.4.2 - don't remember a problem before -20mdk. I'm attaching a harddrake report. Si. > Somewhere between VIA motherboard, 2.4.2, reiser and > rpm theres a problem. I cannot get any log of the crash as > all writes to the disk fail to occu

Re: [Cooker] kernel 242 is the culprit

2001-03-30 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:31:35AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > I don't think cooker is quite at a deep enough > freeze to exclude that yet? *NO* freeze should be deep enough to prevent the replacing of a buggy kernel! Fixing a buggy kernel should move the release date if it needs to. b. -

[Cooker] kernel 242 is the culprit

2001-03-30 Thread Con Kolivas
There have been some posts here about machines hanging with reiserFS. As I mentioned earlier I've been getting these hangs as well. I could reliably get them by trying to install a few RPMS (it wouldn't happen on the first install), regardless of whether I do it from a console, urpmi, rpmdrak