Hans Witvliet wrote: > Hi all, > > Two days ago, at work, i upgraded a IBM-notebook that was installed with > the 10.2-dvd. That particular machines was allways left non-connected, > so when it was connected to the out-side world it discoverd that about > 120 patches were available. After some time (ahum) most patches were > installed (except the java-patches, that failed). > Next day i booted the system, but it hang during startup, without any > clear indication where of why (one time during ntfs, next time during > wireless-setup, each time somewhere else. > > Fearing the worst, i let it run memtest for several hours, nothing came > up. Booted the "other" OS; disk check, nothing wrong. > Booted in resque mode from dvd, and performed filesystem check, nothing > wrong. But still could not boot any more. Still system frooze stiff. > AFAIK, there was no kernel-patch and the initrd was left unchanged > before/after the upgrade. > > Because i had work to do, i re-installed the notebook again, hooked it > up the net and had a suspicious look at the patches. > As one of the patches involved lvm (which i allways use), I decided to > install all, except lvm (and java that still failed to install) > Installation and upgrade went well, untill the boot > > Is this an isolated incident, or is it something for bugzilla?
I had something similar with a new duo-core system I bought. The 10.2 install went fine, everything seemed to run perfectly, but after a few days I would find the box comatose - blank screen, unresponsive. The box would never exceed 5 days uptime or so, and once I found it with a load average of 55 before it went comatose. There was nothing unusual running on the box at the time, and there were never any log entries indicating trouble. I installed the 2.6.18.5-SL102_BRANCH_20070120194918-default kernel on the off chance that it might have a bug fix, and that seemed to improve the reliability somewhat. The box became solid after I removed beagle, zmd and friends. It's been up for a couple weeks now. Not enough data points really, but those few facts might be of interest to someone. Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
