Dave Jones wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:36:36PM -0500, David Curry wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:09:02PM -0500, David Curry wrote:
> >> I downloaded the 2.6.10-1.14_FC2 kernel today and promptly rebooted to
> >> give it a spin.
> >>
> >> My system froze up fairly quickly and then repeated that performance on
> >> reboot. The only way I was able to recover control of the system in
> >> both instances was through pushing Reset on the box.
> >>
> >> On the first occurence, I had stepped away from the machine for several
> >> minutes and returned to discover a screensaver pattern on the screen
> >> with system completely unresponsive to mouse and keyboard.
> >>
> >> On the second occurence, I stepped away for a few minutes and returned
> >> to find a dialogue box displayed on the desktop advising that the volume
> >> control applet had died suddenly and asking if I wanted to restart it.
> >> I selected "No". Within seconds the Gnome panel at the bottom of the
> >> screen disappeared and the system was unresponsive to mouse and keyboard.
> >>
> >> Is anyone else experiencing this system behavior with the new kernel?
> >
> >Did you try the .13 one too ? I'm curious if this is something
> >introduced by the exec-shield fixes.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> NO. I wasn't aware that there as a .13 kernel, Dave. I moved from .12
> to .14 when the up2date icon advised that non-kernel updates were
> available and learned that .14 had been released.
It was in the updates-testing pool only.
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/2/i386/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.13_FC2.i686.rpm
If you could give that a try and find out if it also has problems,
that would narrow it down a little.
Dave
I have a single processor and have never tried a smp kernel. Would the
.13 kernel work on my system?
