I too am experiencing machine freezups with SuSE 7.3. I am running an AMD-K6-233 machine with 98 mb of memory and a 13 gb hard drive. I'm trying to run the native amateur radio suite of applications for my TCPIP gateway. When I run the ham stuff up, it usually ends up running quite nicely for 30-45 minutes, and sometimes up to several hours... but eventually the machine completely locks up and I have to reboot. I am running LinuxNode, AX25D, AX25IPD, Linux FBB, NETROMD, etc. I have been told that I should upgrade to the latest kernel, (2.4.19 I think it was..) as there might be some bug fixes in it which would possibly help my freezup problem. I tried downloading that from SuSE's FTP site and it installed ok.. However, when I rebooted the machine, problems began. I am running reiserfs here and there was a complaint that the modules for reiserfs were not found, and then my machine went into a kernel panic and locked up completely. Soooo, I got rid of the new kernel and put the stock SuSE distribution back on and have been putting up with the lockups ever since. This is very frustrating, indeed! It is hoped that someone can provide some constructive suggestions as to how I can overcome these problems. Additionally, I do not think that SuSE has the most current amateur radio applications on their distribution disks. I know for a fact that NETROMD, AX25D, and possibly AX25IPD had several major patches or bug fixes in the not so recent future, however it does not appear as if they made it to the SuSE 7.2 or SuSE 7.3 distribution disks. SuSE, please take note. Thanks! 73, Gary, W7NTF
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:23:24PM -0500, w7ntf@aol.com wrote:
I have been told that I should upgrade to the latest kernel, (2.4.19 I think it was..) as there might be some bug fixes in it which would possibly help my freezup problem. I tried downloading
Gary, Have you looked in /var/log/messages to see if there are ary error or warning messages that might give you some clues? Does it lock up if you are not running the ham radio programs? Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MSCE, N+ you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net
w7ntf@aol.com wrote:
I too am experiencing machine freezups with SuSE 7.3. I am running an <snip> I have been told that I should upgrade to the latest kernel, (2.4.19 I think <snip>
I would recommend upgrading to the official upgrade for the kernel, which (so far) is 2.4.16. If you look in the directory, there are several companion updates, such as reiserfs, etc. You only need the one kernel rpm, but I would suggest downloading the other rpms (not kernel) in the directory, then use Yast1 to install them (I like seeing which ones are installed with Yast 1 so I am not installing something new that wasn't there before, just updating what has already been installed). Afterward, as root, mk_initrd and then lilo. I could be wrong, but I don't think it is the apps, but the VM in the 2.4.10 kernel. 2.4.16 is much better. -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871
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Joe & Sesil Morris (NTM)
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Keith Winston
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w7ntf@aol.com