RE: [rhn-users] Dell lock-up problem with Red Hat

["Ed Cooley" <ecooley strategy5 com>]

I have to tell you when you stake your reputation on redhat and dell who are
supposed to be working together with 8.0 installed on the machine.  When you
are sitting their with 80 users staring at you it blatently doesn't work you
put it on whatever list you please.  :)

BTW: the answer came from a RHN user and I had the 80 users back in
production within an hour or so.  Try that with a closed source OS.

Cheers to the Redhat users!  Without them, we would be in trouble.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-admin redhat com [mailto:rhn-users-admin redhat com]On
Behalf Of Todd Warner
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 8:13 PM
To: rhn-users redhat com
Cc: ecooley strategy5 com
Subject: RE: [rhn-users] Dell lock-up problem with Red Hat

In the future, hit the main redhat list or your distro's list or the
current distro's list with this. Red Hat uses a bunch of 2650's so...
:)

Glad to know you are on the trail to fixing the problem.

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Ed Cooley wrote:

> I have gotten a few contacts already, which are much appreciated.
>
> It seems there is a problem with the broadcom NIC card and the power save
> features in the 2xxx and 4xxx with a gigabit card.  I have not been able
to
> test it yet, but you have to install a new nic driver, turn off power
> management in grub or lilo to correct the problem.  Supposedly DELL and
> RedHat have a new driver on their sites but they are not the same so I
guess
> I will do some testing.
>
>
> Edward J Cooley - President
> Strategic Concepts, Inc.
> 479-271-7400 - Fax: 271-7401
> ecooley strategy5 com
> www.strategy5.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-admin redhat com [mailto:rhn-users-admin redhat com]On
> Behalf Of jmarkuna
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 8:54 AM
> To: rhn-users redhat com
> Subject: RE: [rhn-users] Dell lock-up problem with Red Hat
>
> HI
>
>         I have seen the lock up on Dells running RH V7.1. I would watch
the
> output of top and all of the memory was consumed. I upgraded the Kernel
via
> up2date and the no more lock-ups.
>
> Sincerely
> John Markunas
> System Administrator
> Williams College
> 413-597-3567(D)
> 413-822-2928(C)
> 413-597-4276(F)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-admin redhat com [mailto:rhn-users-admin redhat com] On
> Behalf Of Ed Cooley
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 9:34 AM
> To: Red Hat Mailing List
> Cc: RHN User List
> Subject: [rhn-users] Dell lock-up problem with Red Hat
>
> Sorry for the duplicate list posting but this might be turning into a big
> problem for us with 100 systems installed.
>
> It seems a large number of the Dell servers we have recently put in server
> have a problem where they intermittently lock-up hard, no keyboard, no
> reboot, and require a power-down.  Sometimes they will run for a week or
two
> but when they lock up, it is all over.   I installed a 2650 last night and
> it locked up within 45 minutes.
>
> Dell seems to think it has something to do with the power save feature but
> can't come up with a way to turn it off.
>
> Is anyone else having these kinds of difficulties with Dell or other
> servers?  In your experiences do the Dell servers have a higher occurrence
> of problems like this than IBM or HP servers running Linux?
>
> We never had problems with Dell in the past and have had their machines
run
> for over a year under heavy loads (some with almost 100 users on telnet)
> without even a reboot being required.  This seems to have just cropped up
in
> the last 2 or 3 months with probably 50% of the new servers we have
> installed and most of them are 2650s.
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
>
> Ed
>
>
>
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