On Wednesday 15 February 2006 09:05, Brian Hanks wrote: > Has anyone else run across stability problems with the 2.6.15-1.1831 > kernel? > > I recently upgraded my rock solid FC4 box to this kernel version and > shortly thereafter it crashed hard. It was locked up to the point where it > was not displaying anything and not responding to any type of input. I > tried to reboot it, but ended up getting an assortment of differing errors > with each attempt (kernel panic - cannot sync, seg faults, etc.). It even > took 3 attempts to get it to boot into single user mode. > > At this point, I'm trying to figure out if it's truly a kernel thing or if > it's just coincidental timing of some other issue (like a bad memory > module). I'll be running some more tests this evening. > > > Thanks, > -- Brian Sounds like a hard drive partition is full ( I have had this myself). Try booting into init 1 and check how much the partitions have. Try the following; rm -f /var/cache/yum/base/packages/* rm -f /var/cache/yum/extras/packages/* rm -f /var/cache/yum/packages/updates-released/* rm -f /var/cache/yum/packages/upgrade/packages/* or the equivalent for apt-get. -- Some people have convictions. Some people have opinions I think I'll have a cheeseburger!