stability of RHEL ES 4 (was: RE: trouble installing/running the Domain Name Service Configuration Tool)

[Sam Folk-Williams]

This could be any number of things, do you do anything to the system
in terms of installing particular applications or loading any kernel
modules before you start seeing the panics? If you are just running a
default installation there should be no stability issues with the OS
itself. What is your hardware? It might be that there is some piece of
incompatible hardware in your system or even a bad disk or
something... Can you list your system components if its a custom
machine or your brand/model?

On 7/16/05, Ed McCorduck <MCCORDUC at cortland.edu> wrote:
> Tesekkür. This Linux novice has now gained another bit of knowledge the hard way, i.e. with a little embarrassment over my ignorance. Not only do I now know how to spot source RPMs but I know what to do with them, too, so again, tesekkür.
> 
> But before I could try your solution, for the third time my Linux system has crashed with kernel panics and file system errors that have again left me with a nonbooting system, so I'll need to reinstall Linux one more time. With my limited capabilities I can't tell if the problem is with my computer's hardware or with the Linux system software itself, but one thing I can do is this: I'd like to ask if any of you have also experienced major problems keeping Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4 stable. I downloaded the installation files for the "Update 1" version of RHEL ES 4 and it has usually installed fine, but after a short time (a couple of days or a week) of doing anything with the system it crashes into uselessness.
> 
> 
> Ed McCorduck
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> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of
> > Ali Erdinç Köroglu
> > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 7:36 AM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: Re: trouble installing/running the Domain Name
> > Service Configuration Tool
> >
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> > Hi, you installed a source-rpm which is not a binary package.
> > But you can make your
> > own rpm package. "rpmbuild --rebuild
> > redhat-config-bind-2.0.0-14.src.rpm" when you
> > do this you will have redhat-config-bind-2.0.0-14.rpm in
> > /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 if there is no dependicies in specfile.
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:15:36 -0400
> > "Ed McCorduck" <MCCORDUC at cortland.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Update 1, installed on my
> > > computer. Included in my configuration is Berkeley Internet Name
> > > Domain (BIND). which I had installed from my RHEL 4
> > installation CDs.
> > > With BIND on my system, I assumed that I could run the Domain Name
> > > Service Configuration Tool as described on the printed page
> > 181 of the
> > > _Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reference Guide_. However,
> > after entering
> > > the given command redhat-config-bind at a shell prompt, I got the
> > > response
> > >
> > > bash: redhat-config-bind: command not found
> > >
> > > Seeing no way to install the Domain Name Service Configuration Tool
> > > under System Settings > Add/Remove Applications on my
> > system, I went
> > > to the Red Hat public FTP site
> > >
> > ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS > to try
> > > to locate this package but I did not see it listed under this
> > > directory. I therefore backtracked and tried the directory
> > >
> > ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS > where I
> > > did find the package "redhat-config-bind-2.0.0-14.src.rpm."  I
> > > downloaded this file to a directory on my computer and I
> > installed and
> > > attempted to run it, with the following results:
> > >
> > > [root at edshpvec RHEL3]# dir redhat-config-bind-2.0.0-14.src.rpm
> > > redhat-config- samba-1.0.16-1.src.rpm
> > > redhat-config-httpd-1.1.0-4.src.rpm
> > > [root at edshpvec RHEL3]# rpm -ivh redhat-config- bind-2.0.0-14.src.rpm
> > >    1:redhat-config-bind
> > > ########################################### [100%] [root at edshpvec
> > > RHEL3]# redhat-config-bind
> > > bash: redhat-config-bind: command not found
> > >
> > > Hence, this package does not run for me and I do not know
> > how to make
> > > it run. I would appreciate your help in properly installing and/or
> > > running this application. Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Regards
> > Ali Erdinc Koroglu
> > http://www.prosoft.com.tr
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