FC6 with yum updates - unstable

Randy Vice damocles at thenostromo.com
Tue Mar 27 09:26:48 UTC 2007


On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:

> Verily I say unto thee, that Randy Vice spake thusly:
>> Since yesterday, my FC6 with all the updates has been very unstable with
>> the current kernel (and it's patches via yum).  It's a bit more stable
>> using the original kernel (plus all the patches), but it's not perfect.
>
> Well I'm fully up2date here too, and 100% rock solid.
>
> And that's on an AMD64 system with a mix of 64 and 32 bit libraries,
> packages from 25 different repos, fglrx (ATI) proprietary drivers, half
> a dozen commercial Linux games, Cedga running half a dozen commercial
> Windows games, proprietary software such as VMWare running Windows XP,
> and my own collection of custom built packages.
>
> If there was a b0rk vector in there somewhere, pure statistics would
> suggest I'd have hit it.

It's x86_64 as well.

>
>> Machine runs stable under XP in harsh gaming environment so I don't
>> think ti's the hardware.  Suggestions on which log I need to tail?
>
> /var/log/messages would be a good start.

Thanks.  This is where I lose the system:

Mar 27 04:15:25 bbs kernel: printk: 1014 messages suppressed.
Mar 27 04:15:25 bbs kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process beagled (pid 2972), 
cs:ip 73:0811853f
Mar 27 04:15:30 bbs kernel: printk: 1941 messages suppressed.
Mar 27 04:15:30 bbs kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process beagled (pid 2972), 
cs:ip 73:0811853f
Mar 27 04:15:35 bbs kernel: printk: 1745 messages suppressed.
Mar 27 04:15:35 bbs kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process beagled (pid 2972), 
cs:ip 73:0811853f
Mar 27 04:15:41 bbs kernel: printk: 269747 messages suppressed.
Mar 27 04:15:41 bbs kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process beagled-helper (pid 
3129), cs:ip 73:0811846aMar 27 04:15:25 bbs kernel: printk: 1014 messages 
suppressed.
Mar 27 04:15:25 bbs kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process beagled (pid 2972), 
cs:ip 73:0811853f
Mar 27 04:15:30 bbs kernel: printk: 1941 messages suppressed.
Mar 27 04:15:30 bbs kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process beagled (pid 2972), 
cs:ip 73:0811853f
Mar 27 04:15:35 bbs kernel: printk: 1745 messages suppressed.
Mar 27 04:15:35 bbs kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process beagled (pid 2972), 
cs:ip 73:0811853f
Mar 27 04:15:41 bbs kernel: printk: 269747 messages suppressed.
Mar 27 04:15:41 bbs kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process beagled-helper (pid 
3129), cs:ip 73:0811846a

> Given that you say downgrading the kernel doesn't help, it's unlikely to
> be a driver issue (if, as you say, all was stable before).
>
> Are you running anything weird on the system?
>
> Oh, and like Ed already said ... define "unstable"

Current kernel may or may not survive bootup.  I may get into X and a 
chance to log on and lose it shortly afterwards.  Going with the original 
kernel, I lose it many hours later.

Thanks again!

Randy

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