Normally kernel panics will show up in /var/log/messages, looking something
like:
syslog:May 13 22:50:55 gamera kernel: /dev/vmmon: (pid=12708) VMX86 driver
panic. pid=12708
Sadly I don't have the specific messages I got at that time because I blew away
that installation a couple more times before I hit on the right h/w s/w
configuration for everything.
Also, when you get a lockup in X, you can try hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to
the first tty, which is also your console, I believe, to see if there were any
messages dumped there...
As for why switching controllers would help, I am not sure, but maybe there is
some timing issue or master/slave relationship that requires the dvd to be on
ide 0 -- the nature of the kernel panics lead me to believe that the hdd was
disappearing from the system for long periods of time...
On Fri, 18 May 2001 15:36:31 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Sebastian Hassinger
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 512-576-9074
> > http://methin.kz/singe/
> >
> >
> >
>
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