On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 04:42 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:43 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:24 -0600, Tim Donnelly wrote: > > > I am using Suse 10.2 on two different machines. One is a new Dell > > > Poweredge 2970, the other is an older (2002) "no-name" server. > > > > I have the same problem with two machines, one a dual core x86_64 and a > > AMD XP2000 ... self built together and working 2 and 5 years > > respectively. > > > > > Both have experienced a strange and severe problem since I installed > > > Suse. > > > > i had it with SuSE 9.3, 10.0, 10.1 (Boxed Novell purchased version) and > > now with OpenSUSE 10.2 > > > > > > > > Basically the file system is put into a read-only state. > > > > This I noticed only now with OpenSUSE 10.2, the others just locked up > > solid. > > I wonder if you have considered that the problem is hardware related and > the timing of installing a new OS is coincidental? I say that from my > own experience wherein a Dell server box was poorly ventilated and on > really hot days (no airconditioning) the server filesystem would > suddenly become either 'read-only' or I would have a complete hard > freeze that required cycling the power button. Eventually I saw the > connection with box temperature and the bad behaviour. Turned out that > soon after the scsi drive in that box terminally failed so the software > issues were just an early warning sign. My problems didn't end there, > because after replacing the scsi drive the LSI controller card soon > failed and refused to recognise/initialise the new drive. Moral of the > story, you could have bad drive(s), controllers or ram that could cause > the symptoms you see, and not software at all. > > Gavin >
Hi Gavin, it has been happening on three completely different systems. 1. A 5 year old system that had win2K on it for 3 years and since then SuSE 9.3 and all the following. Here the problem occur with OpenSUSE 10.2. It has an ASUS mobo with ATI Radion graphic card. 2. A 2 year old system only had SuSE 10.0 that had the problem and now has WinXP without any problems. It's a Gigabyte mobo with ATI Radion graphic card. I noticed that intensive file access by Evolution caused a systrem lockup many times. 3. The latest 1 year old system showed the problem mainly with SUSE 10.0 and now with OpenSUSE 10.2. An identical system has SuSE 10.1, where the problem has till now not occured. It is a Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLi mobo with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS. I can't say for sure, but SUSE 10.1 Boxed Novell purchased version seemed to be the most stable. It makes no sense, because the OpenSUSE 10.1 should be identical; or am I mistaken? I rule out HW however. :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
