Help: FC4 crashing regularly

[Arthur Pemberton]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

>Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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>>>>It is a cdrw drive which was workign perfectly in FC3.
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>>>Surely this is a question of the kernel,
>>>not the distribution.
>>>Couldn't you compile and run an older kernel?
>>>(Or just get it - together with modules and initrd -
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>>>from an FC3 box?)
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>>Well yes I could just get an older kernel. However I've come to accept
>>that being part of Fedora is taking a few hits for the team in the name
>>of testing. I don't think it helps anyone but myself to go to an older
>>kernel.
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>I must say I don't regard the kernel as part of the distribution.
>The two seem orthogonal to me.
>It's nice to have a kernel that's supposed to work,
>but I always compile one as soon as I can.
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>In your case, I would have thought that running another kernel 
>would be very likely to help diagnose the problem.
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Ah, well if you have some steps I could follow to pin poin the issue, 
I'd be very happy to follow then and update the bugzilla report.