Dell Poweredge 2450 - Fedora 4 Locks

Michael Ault mikerault at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 26 18:28:22 UTC 2005


What size memory is in the system? This could be
swapping, a memory issue or a driver.

Mike

--- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:44 -0700, Bret Stern wrote:
> > Anyone..
> > 
> > I have a nice Dell 2450 without Raid.
> > 
> > Red Hat Fedora 4 installs but will lock up
> > after a few moments of use.
> 
> Define "a few moments".  One minute?  Five minutes? 
> Ten seconds?
> 
> > I suspect a driver/module? for the AIC-7899 SCSI
> > controller.
> 
> Uh, hmmm.  Generally, a problem with the main
> storage driver will be
> instantaneous.
> 
> > I could use advice on which system log to look at,
> > to determine the failure.
> 
> Use the output of "dmesg" as well as /var/log/dmesg.
>  You should also
> look at /var/log/messages.
> 
> Try isolating things.  Try running in text mode only
> and see if the
> problem is related to the X environment (it often
> is).  To set up
> text mode, boot into single user mode, then edit the
> /etc/inittab file.
> Change the line that reads:
> 
> 	id:5:initdefault:
> 
> to read
> 
> 	id:3:initdefault:
> 
> After saving the file, enter "exit".  The system
> will boot to run level
> 3 or text mode.  Try using it for a while.  If it
> doesn't lock up, try
> switching to run level 5 (GUI mode) by entering
> "telinit 5".  If it
> locks up, then you have an X issue and we'll have to
> deal with that.
> If it doesn't lock up, you may have a power
> management issue with either
> apm or acpi.  Change the line in /etc/inittab back
> to its original
> format and try booting with the options "acpi=off
> apm=off" set (these
> disable acpi and apm) and see if things get better.
> 
> NOTE: I use FC4 on Dell 1850s and 2850s with very
> few problems (if any).
> I don't really know a lot about the 2450s, other
> than they've been
> discontinued.
> 
>
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