Giving up on Linux...

[Norman Gaywood]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:59:08PM +0000, WipeOut wrote:
> xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:
> >such.  I DID ask for help in here before... see "Horrible problems trying 
> >to run Linux on my hardware" and got referred to bug:
> >
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497
> >
> >... which has been open since November of last year with no resolutions 
> >except to say that it is a problem with the stock kernel in Fedora.
> This may be jumping the gun but the latest kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp 
> seems to have solved the SMP system hangs.. I was going to wait till it 
> ran a full two days in the same way that I have run previous kernel 
> releases to make sure its not just luck that it hasn't hung yet..
> 
> Perhaps bugzilla is a little behind on updating what has been addressed..
 
No 2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp does not fix the problem. I've just added
another report to the other bugzilla report that seems related to
109497.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962

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