On Thursday 17 May 2001 09:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
Yet, we have boxes running 8.0 since it was released, never rebooted, with no
problem. AMDs and Intels with and without VIA chipsets. What you are
describing I have seen before only when I had a loose or failing CPU cooling
fan.
Civileme
