Ralph Jones wrote: > I seem to have an instance of the Fedora Core 2 "screaming interrupt" > problem, although it isn't acting precisely as others have described it. > > My FC2 box is on a small network with several Windows boxes, where it > serves as a Samba data/backup server. It runs normally, except that > whenever I logout of an X session (under any username), it disables > interrupt 11 and takes down the network card. Logging back in (as the same > or another user) does not make it recover; the only thing that will restore > network function is a reboot. The messages file contains: > > Aug 15 09:43:51 heloise gdm(pam_unix)[2908]: session closed for user root > Aug 15 09:43:51 heloise gconfd (root-3058): Exiting > Aug 15 09:43:53 heloise kernel: irq 11: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?) > Aug 15 09:43:53 heloise kernel: irq 11: Please try booting with acpi=off > and report a bug > Aug 15 09:43:53 heloise kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace > Aug 15 09:43:53 heloise kernel: handlers: > Aug 15 09:43:53 heloise kernel: [<128be97c>] (tulip_interrupt+0x0/0x774 > [tulip]) > Aug 15 09:43:53 heloise kernel: Disabling IRQ #11 ... Most odd. Can you try a different network card? How is your /etc/hosts set up: does heloise point to 127.0.0.1 or somewhere else? James. -- E-mail address: james | ... File not found, I'll load something *I* think @westexe.demon.co.uk | is interesting.