I had what is described below the first couple of days after building my Duron
800 Mhz, ABIT KT-7 (VIA 133 chipset) system and installing LM8.0. I figured out
that it was experiencing kernel panics, basically losing track of some VFS or
other and freaking out. A few other weird problems with installs and mounting
CDROMS made me think it had something to do with my Matsushita DVD-ROM drive,
and then an instinct told me to try swapping IDE connections -- I moved the DVD
to 0 and the HDD to 1, and everything has been happy ever since.
So, quick recap -- I had my HDD on IDE 0 and DVD-ROM on IDE 1, had kernel
panics relating to file systems disappearing, then swapped to DVD on IDE 0, HDD
on IDE 1, everything got happy.
Maybe this is some clue?
On Fri, 18 May 2001 08:02:01 -0700, Civileme said:
> 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
>
>
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