Re: Etch 2.6.18-5-486 stable but 2.6.18-5-686 crashes on PIII SMP???

2007-11-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:04:12PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I am hoping that there might be some kernel experts out there that can > offer some suggestions as to what might be going wrong with the 686 > kernel, and which I might be able to try in order to resolve (or at least > explain) the p

Etch 2.6.18-5-486 stable but 2.6.18-5-686 crashes on PIII SMP???

2007-10-31 Thread Digby Tarvin
I have installed Etch using a recent netinstall on a Dell Precision 410, and had a lot of trouble initially with mysterious frequent 'segmentation fault' errors and total system freezes which required a reset. After some trial and error and some advice from the net I discovered that if I installed