Kernel 2.6.10-1.14_FC2

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Feb 16 00:12:39 UTC 2005


On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:09:02PM -0500, David Curry wrote:
 > I downloaded the 2.6.10-1.14_FC2 kernel today and promptly rebooted to 
 > give it a spin.
 > 
 > My system froze up fairly quickly and then repeated that performance on 
 > reboot.  The only way I was able to recover control of the system in 
 > both instances was through pushing Reset on the box.
 > 
 > On the first occurence, I had stepped away from the machine for several 
 > minutes and returned to discover a screensaver pattern on the screen 
 > with system completely unresponsive to mouse and keyboard.
 > 
 > On the second occurence, I stepped away for a few minutes and returned 
 > to find a dialogue box displayed on the desktop advising that the volume 
 > control applet had died suddenly and asking if I wanted to restart it.  
 > I selected "No".  Within seconds the Gnome panel at the bottom of the 
 > screen disappeared and the system was unresponsive to mouse and keyboard.
 > 
 > Is anyone else experiencing this system behavior with the new kernel?

Did you try the .13 one too ?  I'm curious if this is something
introduced by the exec-shield fixes.

		Dave




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