Fedora 6 strange hangs

[ann kok]

Hi all

I also encounter this problem

I used the fedora 6 update button to update the
packages last Friday

After reboot, it keeps hanging after few minutes.



--- Al Graziano <al.graziano at gmail.com> wrote:

> In perfect Murphy's law style.. I'm now monitoring
> CPU usage from 
> another machine sshed into mine and nothing is
> happening. I was anyway 
> using the top command before but only after I was
> experiencing the slow 
> down but didn't see anything suspicious. Let's wait
> and see.
> 
> 
> Could anyone point out how to identify the events
> that make my system to 
> beep occasionally. It is annoying for one thing! And
> for the other it 
> may be trying to alert me of something but I don't
> know what
> 
> Thanks
> Al
> 
> Chris Rouch wrote:
> > On 4/17/07, Al Graziano <al.graziano at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I hope some can help me as I am getting very
> frustrated.
> >>
> >> I have recently update my Fedora 6 to the latest
> kernel etc. and I am
> >> now experiencing some very strange, apparently
> random behaviour
> >>
> >> 1) All of a sudden the system starts going very
> very slow until it
> >> eventually hangs and has to be rebooted with the
> laptop power button
> >>
> >
> > I've seen something similar. I have a box running
> mythtv which has 2
> > pvr500 tv cards in it. When all 4 tuners are
> recording, on a 2.6.19
> > kernel I'd see the load average get up to 5 or so,
> and the system
> > would still be useable. With kernel-2.6.20-1.2933,
> the system would
> > melt down - the load average would hit 20 or so
> and the only way to
> > get sanity back would be to kill processes using a
> lot of memory
> > (typically the X server). Rolling back to 2.6.19
> made the problem go
> > away. I haven't tried any newer kernel.
> >
> > I'm reluctant to blame the kernel specifcally
> (especially as I've not
> > found anyone complaining about problems). I have a
> legacy nvidia
> > graphics card, so I'm running
> nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl, plus
> > ivtv-kmdl-2.6.19-1.2911 to drive the pvr500s. But
> as reverting the
> > kernel (and thus the kmdls) fixed it, I concluded
> that there's
> > something wrong with the kernel+kmdl combination.
> >
> > My system is quite old (athlon 2800+), but has
> 1.5Gb memory and the
> > same amount of swap, and normally seems able to
> handle anything I
> > throw at it.
> >
> > So in summary, try using a 2.6.19 kernel instead
> and see if it helps.
> > Please report back here either way.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> 
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