[Gllug] Red Hat 7.2 kernel update 2.4.9-21 lockups?

Huw Lynes huw-l at moving-picture.co.uk
Tue Jan 29 13:53:42 UTC 2002


On Monday 28 January 2002 17:14, Martyn Drake wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:04:02 +0000 Huw Lynes wrote:
> > On Monday 28 January 2002 16:47, you wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > Since letting
> > > up2date download and install it, I've been having completely
> > > random lockups on my box.  Having got back down to the stock
> > > 2.4.7-12 build all seems okay.  
> >
> > What sort of hardware are you running on?
>
> Intel 815 integrated video graphics, Pentium III 800MHz processor,
> ATA100 30Gb hard drive and 3COM 3C905c integrated NIC and 512Mb RAM. 
> Very bog standard stuff.  Hasn't given me any problems in the past. 
> I've thrown OpenBSD 3.0 at it, FreeBSD 4.4 at it, Solaris 8 (Intel)
> at it with no problems whatsoever.  All with X-Windows running, I've
> not had any stability problems.
>

Hmmm, nothing out of the ordinary there. What comes to mind is maybe a 
bad ide chipset. Find out what yours is and have a scoot round on 
google to see if there are any known problems. Just a shot in the dark 
really. Guess there is nothing informative in /var/log/messages?

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