On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:25:59AM +0000, WipeOut wrote: > Hi, > > I am running a P4 2.4 with HT and the SMP kernel.. Just upgraded to FC1 > on Saturday.. All updates installed (isn't YUM great!!).. > > Now for the issue.. > > It would appear that when running the SMP kernel the system will lockup > once per day, usually within the first hour or two from bootup.. I tried > the single proc kernel yesterday and the system was fine all day.. > > Anyone else having this type of issue?? For sure, I'm seeing this a lot. Perhaps there are other ways of doing it but for me a umount seems to be good a way of triggering this problem. On all the smp fedora systems I've tried, if I put a mount and umount in a shell loop like this: while [ true ] do mount <something> /mnt umount /mnt done my system will die. My systems include a quad Xeon, Duel Xeon, quad Pentium III, and a single processor athlon running the smp kernel. I've tried <something> as an NFS mount and an ext3 mount. I also suspect a loop back mount will trigger it as well. Sometimes an rpm kernel install will hang the system around the time a umount would occur (creating the initrd). Read the scary stories at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497 -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
