Hi,
So I'm not the only one, maybe it's something with the Via chipset or the cyrix processor.
I'll hope that it's the cpuspeed program which invokes the problem, let me know and I'll disable it too.
At FC2 I never had any problems, only at the install I needed another kernel but after that everything went fine.
I'm looking forward to your considerations.
Rob
Randy wrote:
Hello Rob,
I have a via EPIA-M. Using the most recent kernel, it seems to run about two days before it locks up. I have switched back to 2.6.9-1.667, which seemed a little more stable. I also disabled the cpuspeed program this morning and I'm going to see if it helps. I'll post the results in about two days, or when it crashes again, whichever comes first.
Just for comparison, I ran FC1 on the same hardware from the day it was released up until a month ago without ever rebooting. I never needed to, and it is on a UPS so power glitches never brought it down. It is only with the upgrade to FC3 that I am getting crashes/lockups every other day. This morning FC3 crashed at 4am, after many hours of no activity at all, with nothing suspicious in the log at all. In fact, the entries for the prior four hours are as follows:
Nov 26 00:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4259]: session closed for user root
Nov 26 01:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4266]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 26 01:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4266]: session closed for user root
Nov 26 02:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4274]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 26 02:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4274]: session closed for user root
Nov 26 03:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4284]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 26 03:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4284]: session closed for user root
Nov 26 03:09:17 io dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.20 from 00:0d:61:4a:e8:9e via eth0
Nov 26 03:09:17 io dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.20 to 00:0d:61:4a:e8:9e via eth0
Nov 26 04:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4292]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 26 04:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4292]: session closed for user root
Nov 26 04:02:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4294]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
I'm clueless what pam_unix is doing opening sessions for user root. It makes me a little nervous. But there's nothing here that would indicate a system about to crash.
Randy
At 04:54 AM 11/26/2004, you wrote:
Hello,
On my own server, I always runned FC2 without any problems. Now I installed FC3 and it's very unstable! Sometimes he runs for a few hours but sometimes he crashes after only a few minutes. And in the syslog I found this a several times:
Warning: CPU frequency out of sync: cpufreq and timing core thinks of 399000, is 798000 kHz.
It's a Via Epia board with the cyrix 800 cpu. I didn't overclock anything.
Anybody who recognizes this or has the same problems?
Rob
