In article <200406232005.13210.suse-linux@ml04q2.pinguin.uni.cc>,
Al Bogner
Am Mittwoch, 23. Juni 2004 19:14 schrieb Jim Westbrook:
And for many of us the "fix" was worse than the original problem. The unpatched kernel would at least BOOT.
But this machine is save now :-) (waiting too for a new kernel)
If I have to guess, I would say, DMA is involved, because it doesn't work with a machine here, where 1 drive has DMA problems and I disabled it therefore, while this machine has the same chipset (815i) and processor than a working machine.
I too have had a DMA problem with nfsd/filesystem - but so far not since the pached 2.6.5-7.75 for 9.1 I do, however, have two quite bad problems - (1) Segmentation fault in line 162 of /usr/share/YaST2/clients/sw_single.ycp which says Pkg::SourceStartCache(true) which I presume is a call to some perl package. This prevents software update! This is new since the kernel update (obtained on 22nd June on-line!). (2) Still (right from first install of 9.1 over 8.2) there are intemittent total hang-ups which seem to be associated with the Touchpad Synaptic driver - only a power switch off has any effect (keyboard driver also not reacting). The kernel seems to 'freeze' as I cannot get a response to pinging the machine any longer when this has occurred - so it isn't really a security problem - I think(!?!). Keith Hopper -- City Desk Waikato University [PGP key available if desired]