For what it is worth. I have been running various flavours of Redhat on a Dell Latitude for the last two years. Currently it is running 7.3 and 2.4.18-10. I have always used up2date to update the kernels, but when I went to 2.4.18-19.7x I started experiencing problems. These included Lock ups in both X (Gnome) and the console, not shutting down correctly and an inability to find the CD rom (Dell standard 24x)
Therefore backing off to 2.4.8-10 and everything starts working A-ok again. I have no answers, just a for what its worth Enjoy On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 21:22, William R.Pearson wrote: > We are trying to run a very "stock" RH 7.3 system on a Supermicro Dual > PIII > Serverworks system with two 3Com Gbit ethernet boards. > > Despite our best efforts, we have not been able to get any kernel after > 2.4.18-3 > to stay up for more than 2 - 3 hours. 2.4.18-3 will stay up for days, > sometimes > weeks, until it hits the ext3 journalling assert bug. (We just > installed 2.4.18-4 > today, and hopefully that will fix this problem.) > > This has been especially frustrating because the latest greatest kernel > upgrade, > 2.4.18-19.7x, specifically mentions the two problems we thought we were > having, > ext3 and the tg3 (Gb ethernet) driver. Thus, we were very disappointed > when > 2.4.18-19.7x crashed (twice) after 2 hr. > > The same hardware, with a single Gb NIC, ran for weeks at a time with > 2.4.17 (built > from source). > > What should I do now? How do I report this problem to RH, and how do I > get more > information about why things crash (there is never any information in > the /var/log/messages file). > > Bill Pearson -- Alan & Jan Harding Tel: 07715 539272 "One by one the penguins are stealing my sanity" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
