Interesting,
Did you find log messages about kernel panics? I've
never had a kernel panic (that I know of) so I'm not
sure where to look. But there hasn't been anything in
my logs around these events.
Also, I don't have any HDD on the IDE controllers. So
maybe its a filesystem problem. But then, why would
switching controllers help you?
Thanks
> 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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>
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