SMP Kernel on Dell PE2850 and X causes crash - FC5 Test 3

Charles Deling charles at softwareeffect.com
Mon Feb 27 22:49:44 UTC 2006


I installed the FC5 test 3 CD's. Using kernel version 
kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.1955_FC5, in run level 5 after the user logs on the
system locks up hard. No keyboard input, no changes on the screen, no
network functions. Using kernel kernel-2.6.15-1.1955_FC5

To make sure I have the latest and greatest of everything I ran "yum -y
update" at 17:47 Februrary 27 (Eastern time) except for kernel and
kernel-smp and got the same results.

The reason why id did not upgrade the kernel is because I get the
following error message from yum for  kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.1977_FC5 and 
kernel-2.6.15-1.1977_FC5


Downloading Packages:
(1/1): kernel-2.6.15-1.19 100% |=========================|  13 MB    01:35
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: kernel                       ######################### [1/1]
error resolving symbolic link
./../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.0/0000:02:0e.0/host0/target0:2:0/0:2:0:0\u047fD\u047f
\\u047f,\u047f\uffff: No such file or directory

After I did the upgrade and booted to run level 5 with the SMP kernel,
XOrg was using 99% of the processors (per top) and never prompted for a
user to log in. I could connect via ssh, but the system was running very
slow.

Starting the sytem with SMP in run level 3 is fine until you do "startx"
or init 5 - then the processor utilization goes off the chart. Nothing
every appears on the monitor. ssh will function.

The system has (2) 2.8G processors and

As I am not an expert in X, could somebody suggest something stupid I
might be doing, is there more information I should provide, or should I
file a bug report?

Thanks!
Charlie




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