Giving up on Linux...

[xyzzy at hotpop.com]

On Sunday 22 February 2004 5:36 pm, Andy Green wrote:
> On Sunday 22 February 2004 15:22, xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:
> > I checked it and there are no processes using a lot of CPU besides X.
> > Perhaps some sort of X problem?  Runlevel 3 seems to run normally but it
> > is difficult to tell.  The booting process is very slow.
>
> If the booting stuff is slow, its not an X problem... unless I suppose you
> were running the rhgb (RedHat Graphical Boot) stuff, which is in X.
>
> If you want to debug it you should find out about that first.... remove the
> rhgb from the kernel commandline in /boot/grub/grub.conf, edit /etc/inittab
> temporarily with the line
>
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> changed to
>
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> That will be major guidence where your problems are coming from if you
> still have the disease without X in the picture at all.  Or conversely if
> you run fine without X, your problem is at least identified as an X
> problem.  In this case I would try to run with "vesa" as the video driver
> and look at removing any extra input device stuff.
>
> I would also definitely run the latest FC2 test1 2.6 kernel -- in fact I am
> running it right now myself.
>
> I would also be looking at /var/log/messages with a critical and hawklike
> eye :-)
>
> > One of the reasons I posted here was to find out if anybody else is
> > having the same problems with a configuration like mine.
>
> Well, you found somebody is running that mobo without problems.  So your
> next move is to decide if you want to go on with trying to find out what
> the issue is, or if you just want to continue to be aggressively negative.
>
> -Andy
>

Ok, thanks for the pointers... I'll try this...

Look at bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497 which 
has been open since November and is ending up with the consensus that it is a 
problem with the Fedora stock kernels....  People with this bug report that 
if they run 2.4.24 from kernel.org, they have uptimes of over a week without 
problems.

I was also leaning towards trying the 2.6 kernel but that is a major hassle 
for me if I can't get X up at all due to the seg fault I had from updating 
the Intel graphics driver.

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