I'd like to add that my purpose in starting this thread
is not to slam Mandrake. It is to find out if my
experience is isolated, and if there is a solution.
If it isn't isolated, maybe we can find some common
threads that lead to a solution.
To that end, I'd like to ask the other people who are
having stability problems what filesystem they are using.
I am using ReiserFS for everything but the boot
partition.
Thanks
Eric
> 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
>
