On Fri, 18 May 2001 15:08:25 +0000
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> 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.
That's the same as my partitioning.
My data is on ext2 also, but i guess that doesn't matter much
Marcel Pol
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Oops, sent it to the personal adress.
Sending it to expert now, to keep good order.
> 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
> >
>
