On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:07:50 -0500, L. Mark Stone wrote:
I've had two issues with this kernel and am curious who else is having similar problems.
::Issue #1:: Although it seems benign/recoverable, for the first reboot after installing this kernel I get an error in the logs that the system can't load what's listed in modules.dep because it can't find the file modules.dep--even though the file exists. A second reboot and then the system has no problem finding the file.
::Issue #2:: This one is a show stopper: With the -10 kernel we get frequent hard lockups, about once every hour or two. Doing a ctrl-alt-bkspc fails to restart the X server; the keyboard and mouse become frozen/non-responsive, and the only recovery is via the power button. We can see this coming when we go to launch an app, we get the bouncing mouse cursor, and then the app fails to launch and the mouse cursor returns to normal. At that point, the next app we launch will lock the system up. There's nothing in the logs.
We went back to the -5 kernel for a while, waiting to make sure the revised -10 packages hit all the mirrors. Then, late last week we reinstalled the -10 kernel from the ftp.gwdg.de mirror. And we still have the same problems.
So, for the moment we've gone back to the -5 kernel, and the system has had no lockups for the past two days.
Anyone else seeing either of these?
Best regards, Mark
I am still running -5, but I had a lockup like you describe on one of my machines over the weekend. I had to cycle power to wake it up. That particular machine does not even have X running, so it was pure text mode. That machine gets booted a lot, because I am moving disk drives in and out of it regularly, but I don't remember any other time I was forced to reboot it. Also, it is not networked, so I don't know if the NIC was still functional or not. Greg -- Greg Freemyer