Re: All RH kernels fail after 2.4.18-3 (and possibly -4)

[Alan Harding <alanh flashmail com>]

For what it is worth.

I have been running various flavours of Redhat on a Dell Latitude for
the last two years. Currently it is running 7.3 and 2.4.18-10. I have
always used up2date to update the kernels, but when I went to
2.4.18-19.7x I started experiencing problems. These included Lock ups in
both X (Gnome) and the console, not shutting down correctly and an
inability to find the CD rom (Dell standard 24x)

Therefore backing off to 2.4.8-10 and everything starts working A-ok
again.

I have no answers, just a for what its worth

Enjoy


On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 21:22, William R.Pearson wrote:
> We are trying to run a very "stock" RH 7.3 system on a Supermicro Dual 
> PIII
> Serverworks system with two 3Com Gbit ethernet boards.
> 
> Despite our best efforts, we have not been able to get any kernel after 
> 2.4.18-3
> to stay up for more than 2 - 3 hours.  2.4.18-3 will stay up for days, 
> sometimes
> weeks, until it hits the ext3 journalling assert bug.  (We just 
> installed 2.4.18-4
> today, and hopefully that will fix this problem.)
> 
> This has been especially frustrating because the latest greatest kernel 
> upgrade,
> 2.4.18-19.7x, specifically mentions the two problems we thought we were 
> having,
> ext3 and the tg3 (Gb ethernet) driver.  Thus, we were very disappointed 
> when
> 2.4.18-19.7x crashed (twice) after 2 hr.
> 
> The same hardware, with a single Gb NIC, ran for weeks at a time with 
> 2.4.17 (built
> from source).
> 
> What should I do now?  How do I report this problem to RH, and how do I 
> get more
> information about why things crash (there is never any information in 
> the /var/log/messages file).
> 
> Bill Pearson
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