On Friday 18 May 2001 08:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
OK that is helpful
Now, let me ask this--
Suppose you do it this way....
Install a VERY SMALL system on the / partition only
Follow the procedure at
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=754&lang=en
to set up your other partitions and transfer the installed software, then use
software manager to put in the rest of what you want.
Now you still have Reiser but the notail (read much more stable) mount
option.
Your reiserfs DOES adequately explain the freezes, in and of itself. If
others have freezups without them, I would love to learn of it, especially
with an eye to reproducing and solving.
Civileme
>
> > 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
