Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (241 mails)

[J Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans Witvliet wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Two days ago, at work, i upgraded a IBM-notebook that was installed with
> the 10.2-dvd. That particular machines was allways left non-connected,
> so when it was connected to the out-side world it discoverd that about
> 120 patches were available. After some time (ahum) most patches were
> installed (except the java-patches, that failed).
> Next day i booted the system, but it hang during startup, without any
> clear indication where of why (one time during ntfs, next time during
> wireless-setup, each time somewhere else.
> 
> Fearing the worst, i let it run memtest for several hours, nothing came
> up. Booted the "other" OS; disk check, nothing wrong.
> Booted in resque mode from dvd, and performed filesystem check, nothing
> wrong. But still could not boot any more. Still system frooze stiff.
> AFAIK, there was no kernel-patch and the initrd was left unchanged
> before/after the upgrade.
> 
> Because i had work to do, i re-installed the notebook again, hooked it
> up the net and had a suspicious look at the patches.
> As one of the patches involved lvm (which i allways use), I decided to
> install all, except lvm (and java that still failed to install)
> Installation and upgrade went well, untill the boot
> 
> Is this an isolated incident, or is it something for bugzilla?

I had something similar with a new duo-core system I bought. The 10.2 install
went fine, everything seemed to run perfectly, but after a few days I would
find the box comatose - blank screen, unresponsive. The box would never exceed
5 days uptime or so, and once I found it with a load average of 55 before it
went comatose. There was nothing unusual running on the box at the time, and
there were never any log entries indicating trouble.

I installed the 2.6.18.5-SL102_BRANCH_20070120194918-default kernel on the off
chance that it might have a bug fix, and that seemed to improve the
reliability somewhat.

The box became solid after I removed beagle, zmd and friends. It's been up for
a couple weeks now. Not enough data points really, but those few facts might
be of interest to someone.

Joe



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