Random total lockups

[Cyrus Adkisson]

a) I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with the "you need a 
serial console to fix this" answer.

b) What hardware you're running tells what parts of the kernel and which 
modules you are using. That's why it's important. Yes, it is probably a 
software issue, but indirectly, it could be a hardware issue, too.

There's also the possibility that you have a coincidentally timed power 
issue going on. I had about 15 computers running on cheap cases and 
power supplies that started locking up hourly at the end of April, right 
when the weather (and my apartment) started getting warm. The warm 
weather was causing power fluxuations which was causing lockups. As soon 
as I moved them into quality case/power supply combos, the problem was 
gone. Solid as a rock. But that's kind of off the subject....

What you should do is systematically go through your hardware, replacing 
and removing stuff until the lockups go away. Once that happens, you'll 
know what the problem is. That's what I did to fix my latest lockup 
issue. I took out the ethernet card, still got lockups. Swapped out the 
RAM, still got lockups. Moved my USB cable, no more lockups. Pretty easy.

Good luck.

Cyrus

Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 12:51, Cyrus Adkisson wrote:
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>>What kind of hardware?
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>P4, MSI mainboard, intel chipset, 865 I think.  Nvidia gfx card. using
>usb mouse and have nokia phone usb cable pluged in.
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>All worked fine on redhat 8. So I belive it's a software issue.
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