Instability Issue in Fedora Core 5

[Robin Laing]

Dan wrote:
> Gerry Tool wrote:
> 
>> Edward Dekkers wrote:
>>
>>> Sam Chen wrote:
>>>
>>>> It was more stable in fc4. The system is Asus P4R800-V Deluxe
>>>> Motherboard with P4 3.00GHz CPU hyperthreading. 1GB ram. I noticed that
>>>> in fc4 the hyperthreading made it unstable, so I disabled the
>>>> hyperthreading function; however, it does not help in fc5. It keeps
>>>> crashing. I can count 20 times a day. Before the new patch
>>>> 2.6.16-1_2080smp, it was fine, but after the patch, it is totally
>>>> different. the kernel now even with 2054smp is unstable. I am still
>>>> wondering if wine or httpd cause the problem. Now it is like every
>>>> 30-45 minutes, I have to do a hard reset.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hard reset necessary is more likely a hardware fault than a software 
>>> one.
>>>
>>> You're welcome to keep diagnosing the software, but if I were you I'd 
>>> look at hardware as well.
>>>
>>> It's my job diagnosing system faults (nearly 10 years now, where has 
>>> the time gone?) and hard locks are 90% of the time due to flaky 
>>> hardware.
>>>
>>
>> I have two essentially identical FC5 partitions on my machine.  If I 
>> use the one that was an upgrade from FC4, it freezes 2 or 3 times a 
>> day. The one that was a fresh install of FC5 has so far not frozen at 
>> all. They are both up to date and have essentially the same packages 
>> installed. So, I conclude that it isn't ALWAYS hardware.
>>
>> Gerry
>>
> Perhaps a bugzilla should be filed on this, then; a package or set of 
> packages isn't being upgraded cleanly?
> -Dan
> 

Or something was left over from the FC4 install that has no FC5 package.

How about a comparison of the rpm's installed on both machines?



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Robin Laing