On Friday 30 March 2001 08:38, you wrote:
>
> I'm also experiencing these problems right now. Often when there's some
> disk activity, my system freezes. It really may be reiserfs related. But
> it doesn't happen all the time, that's just so strange...
>
> But it definitely is not RPM related - I also had lock ups when there
> wasn't anything going wrt. RPM.
I have my system all reiser fs and only experience this if I try to use
mandrake update. It locks up the system and messes up the rpm database.
Issueing an rpm -rebuilddb fixes it. after that I just use gnorpm to install
all my packages. And even if I have allot of them, say 150 - 200megs or
more,the install goes fine.
And one last note I was experienceing that only with mandrake 7.2 with
reiserfs created with mandrake 7.2. My 8.0beta bow has been all newly
formated with the new reiser and I havn't seen this at all. But then again I
havn't tried rpmdrake in 8.0 either. I'm sticking to gnorpm for now.
>
> I noticed these problems after I upgraded from kernel 2.4.2-16mdk to
> -20mdk. In -16mdk the system was rock solid - not so anymore :-(((( What I
> notice is that the load skyrockets. I have tload constantly running on a
> console, and it shows that after no time (ie. ~2-3 minutes) the load is
> already at ~16, if not higher. Like already mentioned, rebooting doesn't
> work for me as well. I have to hit SAK-b :(
>
> If anyone still has a -16mdk kernel RPM, I'd be more than interested to
> test if this really is the culprit - please let me know!
>
> Alexander Skwar
