On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Jethro Cramp wrote:
Kernel Panics are not a normal part of a well functioning Linux system - I've never seen one from SuSE 6.0 until now. So there is something fundamentally wrong with your system.
They're a normal part of my system. And I'm not alone either as I understand it. But, of course, not everyone has the problem so there must be a solution. My wife's laptop (on which I also run SuSE 8.1) never has problems.
Switching to another distro without examining the root cause isn't going to help you in the long run. You might find that if you switch, everything is fine, then you upgrade and the problem reappears - what are you going to do? Switch to another distro?
Possibly. At least I won't be paying for the privelage of kernel panics. I had far less trouble with SuSE 8.0. Or Mandrake 8.1/8.2 for that matter.
Why don't you try posting some more information about your problem and see if someone can help you. If you have posted I apologise (I just searched on your name and didn't find anything in the last few weeks...)
Well, I posted around a month or so ago because I was having constant kernel panics. They died down for a while and now they're inexplicably back. My system is a self-built and configured as follows... Pentium III flip chip on an ASUS CUV4X motherboard 768 MB of SDRAM Radeon 7000 Soundblaster Live 27GB 7200 RPM Western Digital HD 20GB 5400 RPM Western Digital HD. HP IDE CDRW (8250i) DVD Drive (not sure what brand) Sandisk CF Reader USB Gravis Gamepad Pro USB The only thing consistent about the kernel panics is that I'm always playing OGG files off the 2nd hard drive (the 20 GB drive), which is HDB on my machine and used to store backups and OGGs. Thank goodness I do backup daily to CDRW since I crash constantly. Anyway, it's *possible* there's a problem with the 2nd drive or the controller or something in the kernel that doesn't like the 2nd drive. Not sure how to recreate a kernel panic, though, aside from taking that drive offline and running with just the 27GB, which will unfortunately be tight space-wise (which is why I got the 20GB). Keep in mind all of this worked great under SuSE 8.0. No problems. Same with Mandrake before it and even Win2k at one point. Preston