Il 24/05/2011 1.37, Joseph Comfort ha scritto:

I have nicely installed 11.4 on 3 desktops and 1 laptop with no obvious issues (except a couple of small ones). But it failed substantially on a 4th desktop. There was a whole range of problems, a frequent one being simply a dead freeze (no display, no response). They could occur while updating rpms, compiling code, or just sitting idle.

An annoying part was that the computer is on a network switch with 2 other computers, both running 11.4. All 3 computers do nfs mounts from the others. When the computer failed, the other computers would hang, and I could not ping to any of them.

I considered hardware issues. The hard disks check out just fine with SMART. I changed the power supply, with no benefit. I have a new CPU chip on order (it is faster anyway). With various checking and reinstallations, I have spent a few days on the problem.

Today, I reinstalled 11.3. The computer is running fine, and all looks splendid. The long compilations went fine. I pushed the cpu hard (loads up to 2.1), with no problems.

Something seems wrong with the 11.4 system. I use the base (KDE) install, but add a lot of rpms for my needs. The crashes seldom left any messages of failure. Any messages I saw did not seem helpful, nor were the failures ever reproducible. I have no idea where the problem is. I do not know what to specify for a bug report.

My configuration is: Motherboard: Asus M2N-E CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (to be replaced with a 5200+) Graphics: nVidia GeForce 7600 GS Monitor: Viewsonic G810 (1600x1200) Kernel: 2.6.37.6-0.5

Maybe I need another message for this, but the two small problems are:

1) When booting the 11.4 computers, the mount-nfs process starts _very_ early, and the booting has to wait for a timeout. This should be fixed (does not happen on 11.3). Once booted, all the disks are mounted.

2) One computer has a Viewsonic VA2431wm monitor, with a 1920x1080 display. When the installation gets to bringing up the login screen, the display becomes a pattern of rectangles. I have to reboot into the Failsafe mode, and then install the proprietary Nvidia drivers to make the display behave properly. Display of this size are now common, and the installation code should accommodate to them.

Thank you, Joe Comfort

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Joseph Comfort wrote:

1) When booting the 11.4 computers, the mount-nfs process starts _very_ early, and the booting has to wait for a timeout. This should be fixed (does not happen on 11.3). Once booted, all the disks are mounted.

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