On Tuesday 12 December 2000 22:43, you wrote:
> Has anyone else encountered this:
>
> This is on a virgin, new install of a Mandrake 7.2 system. Every morning,
> same time (4:02am) the system locks up and freezes hard, requiring a power
> cycle.
>
> Suspecting a cron job, I ran each manually in the cron.daily directory,
> until the same lock-up happened with the slocate cron.daily job.
>
> Since nothing has been customized or changed versus a standard system, I'm
> wondering if anyone else has encountered his, and what the possible fix
> would be.
>
> This is a similar problem that has also happened on an identically
> configured RedHat 7.0 system.
>
> The common factor between the two systems is that both are configured with
> ReiserFS, which is, BTW, what I suspect to be the relevant factor.
>
> Any ideas?
>
Recompile the kernel with the Reiserfs check set (it will be slow, but you
will get the diagnostics you seek).
Civileme
> Harry
