Yea, I think I had replied to your earlier post as
well.
I've been thinking the kernel also, cuz it seems odd
that an X or KDE lockup would screw things up bad enough
that a ping won't get through. There was an article on
linuxtoday a few days ago on using a palm-pilot as a
terminal over a serial port. I wonder if you could get
in that way.
Has anybody tried 2.4.4 with Mandrake 8?
What kind of hardware are you running? Maybe if we get
enough responses we can narrow it down. I don't have
any HD on the IDE channels (and it's never locked up
while I was actively using the other IDE devices), so
that probably eliminates IDE block devices as the
culprit.
Eric
> Eric, I thought your message was a duplicate of mine (I just sent a couple
> days ago)! That's how similar my problem is.
>
> I'm also getting the freeze during bootup, in INIT, so I don't think it's
> solely KDE. Likewise, I have used RedHat in the past, with no problems, so
> I too doubt it's hardware.
>
> I can't figure it out. Let me know if you come up with anything. I'm
> thinking it may be the 2.4.3 kernel...
>
> Solomon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:02 PM
> Subject: [expert] Stability Concerns
>
>
> > How is everybody finding the stability of their Mandrake
> > 8 boxes? I've been having some problems.
> >
> > I've had several random lockups while in KDE. Nothing I
> > can replicate. Somtimes it locks while I'm doing
> > something innocuous (moving mouse, minimizing window),
> > sometimes it's locked up over night. When this happens,
> > there is no saving it. Keyboard & mouse are completely
> > dead, and it won't even respond to a ping over the net.
> > This has happened maybe 6 or 8 times total over the past
> > 2 or 3 weeks.
> >
> > I've also had 2 random reboots. Once was over night,
> > and the other was during the day while I was at work. I
> > had left the box logged in, when I get back the login
> > screen is up and last shows a reboot. The box is on a
> > UPS, and the other box on that UPS hasn't rebooted.
> >
> > There is doesn't seem to be anything interesting in the
> > logs wrt these incidents.
> >
> > I'm pretty confident that its not a hardware problem.
> > This box was rock-solid with a RedHat 6.2 variant.
> >
> > Any ideas? Frankly, If I was satisfied with this kind
> > of stability, I'd have stuck with windows :-)
> > Eric
> >
> >
>
>
