Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Can you post your machine configuration, include the power supply and memory used? Gilboa On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 18:49 -0400, Bruce Feist wrote: > I've installed the AMD 64-bit version of Fedora, 2.6.13, on a new > computer with 1 gig of RAM, one PCI-connected IDE drive, and three SATA > disks. My most recent experience with Linux was RH 8.1 or so. Bad > things are happening... > > 1) The computer locks up frequently. It usually happens while I'm > executing rsync or rcp... which isn't surprising, since those are the > two main programs I'm running at the moment. I'm trying to grab data > from the drives of my old RH 8.1 system -- it was hacked, and I don't > trust it, so I'm taking only data files from it. > > 2) After the last lockup, I turned the computer off and restarted. All > seemed well until Gnome came up -- Nautilus crashed repeatedly. I was > able to bring up three terminal windows, but now I cannot start up other > applications such as Thunderbird. 'top' reports that I'm using almost > all of the memory installed, although I'm barely touching the swap file; > I wonder if that has something to do with it. > > 3) I'm now getting various "Oops" messages from Fedora in my terminal > window as I rsync. A typical sequence is something like: > > Message from syslogd@janus at Sun Oct 23 13:05:06 2005 ... > janus kernel: Oops: 0000 [1] > Message from syslogd@janus at Sun Oct 23 13:05:07 2005 ... > janus kernel: CR2: ffff81ff2b6df30c > > There are several areas that I'm concerned about. First, is 64-bit > Fedora as stable as 32-bit? Second, I'm using SELinux... is that > messing me up somehow? Third, I'm using virtual volumes to combine the > SATA drives; is that unstable or error-prone? Fourth: My hardware is > new, and could conceivably have problems. Fifth: There are two network > cards installed. One, which will be used to connect to the Internet via > a DSL router, is currently not used; the other is used to connect to my > home network, including the older RH machine. Could the missing network > connection somehow be upsetting things? (I wouldn't think so!) > > I'd appreciate any suggestions. I'm getting nowhere solving this. > > Bruce Feist >
