Kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 hangs every few days

[jludwig]

On Monday 02 May 2005 05:45 am, Andrew Gray wrote:
> Since upgrading to Kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 my system:-
>
> AMD XP2200+ 512MB ASUS A7V8X
>
> has been locking up every 3-5 days !!!
>
> When it locks up the Gnome display is completely frozen and remote SSH
> inbound doesn't respond. /var/log/messages doesn't show any cause:-
>
> May  2 01:55:01 ldesk crond(pam_unix)[31676]: session closed for user
> root
> May  2 01:55:01 ldesk gconfd (andrewg-17471): Exiting
> May  2 10:12:24 ldesk syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> May  2 10:12:24 ldesk syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> May  2 10:12:24 ldesk kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg
> started.
> May  2 10:12:24 ldesk kernel: Linux version 2.6.11-1.14_FC3
> (bhcompile at bugs.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat
> 3.4.3-22)) #1 Thu Apr 7 19:23:49 EDT 2005
>
> The last two occurrences have been similar.
> memtest86 passes without problem on this system.
>
>
> With 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 and previous 2.6.10 kernels the system stayed up
> and working for weeks on end.
>
> The other problem with 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 is the ntpd needs restarting
> 10-30 times before it runs continuously
>
> --Andy Gray
> Fedora Core 3
> Also testing FC4test x86_64 on AMD 64 3400+ laptop

I have had similar issues and found slowing the machine up a tick or two 
usually cured the issue. 

(Probably a BIOS setting a little to aggressive or some such.)
-- 
John H Ludwig

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