https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251109 Summary: Unreliable boot Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: hpkeck@web.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Since I installed 10.2 I am having serious problems with booting the system. About every second time it will crash, which means that it will freeze completely, usually shortly after printing a kernel oops message or a segmentation fault. Sometimes it seems to boot up normally but then some processes mysteriously crash (such as kdm getting a segfault when I try to log in), which will lead to a complete freeze sooner or later in most cases. At first I played around with kernel parameters but it didn't help. Now I found out that the setting of INITRD_MODULES seems to have an influence somehow. The original setting was "processor thermal sata_via via82cxxx fan jbd ext3 edd". If I change that to "ide-generic jbd ext3" the boot gets more reliable (only about 20% crashes) but the system is very slow then, of course (no DMA). If I set INITRD_MODULES to either "processor thermal sata_via ide-generic fan jbd ext3 edd" or "via82cxxx jbd ext3", the boot will be as unreliable as in the beginning again. It seems to me that none of these modules causes the problem, but that it might rather be a memory hole somewhere else in the kernel, which just shows up more or less often. My system is based on an Asus A8V mainboard (VIA chipset). I need to mention that I have been running Suse 9.3 for more than half a year on it, and also played around with Suse 10.0 and Ubuntu 6.06 but never had these massive problems I am having with 10.2. I should also mention that I already checked the RAM with Memtest86, but didn't find any problems. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.