C wrote:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 21:39, Claudio Prono wrote:
Can you just downgrad to the previous released kernel and see if it persists.
I've moved from 2.6.31.12 to 2.6.31.8. I'll leave it running and see if the lockup happens.. it's entirely random so.. really hard to trigger :-P
I'm on 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop and it is working perfectly. No crashes. Same here... on my desktop machine... but on the netbook it's def locking up. Other people are reporting it locking on various machines.. not all machines running 2.6.31.12.. just some.
After the downgrade of the kernel you have resolved the situation? I have got some problems anyway after the kernel downgrade...
OK, after the downgrade, no more lockups, but then I started having WiFi issues... the same I had before.. soemthing in the older kernel and my WiFi don't get along.
Anyway, moved back to the latest kernel, and within an hour or so.. lockup. WiFi works well though :-)
This is the default kernel, 32 bit. On my main system, also running the default kernel, it's 64 bit though, and never locks up. Maybe thats' the diff... the key here? The only 32 bit kernel I'm using is the one on the netbook.. that's the one that locks up. All other systems (quite a few if I include all the ones I've installed and support etc) are 64 bit kernels.
For the others experiencing lockups... is that on a 32 bit kernel?
C.
What do you mean "the default" ? The kernel that is installed BY default, is "kernel-desktop". However there is another kernel that is not installed by default, which is "kernel-default". Before 11.2 there was no kernel-desktop, just kernel-default and the various special ones like kernel-xen. That's why it's called -default, because it _was_ the default originally. This kernel had all features enabled and was tuned more for throughput than latency and favored reliability over speed. So it's good for servers. In 11.2 they added kernel-desktop, which removes several features they believe that desktop users do not need, sets some kernel config options to favor latency over throughput, and increase the the gcc optimization (favor speed over reliability). And, they made this new desktop-tuned kernel the one that is installed by default, because they believe that most of their users are desktop users. That is how the backwards-seeming naming came about. That is what I meant by saying "try installing kernel-default" But in any event, kotd sounds like the better answer for a desktop user as then you get to still have a desktop-tuned kernel. The advantage to trying kernel-default is just that you can try it now without adding any other repos, and it would be informative to find out if my hunch is correct that only kernel-desktop has the problem. But if it's already fixed in kotd, that last really doesn't matter much. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org