 | | | Lock up problems under Kernel 2.4.20-28.7 | Lock up problems under Kernel 2.4.20-28.7 2004-01-24 - By Otto Haliburton
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> From: redhat-list-admin@(protected) [mailto:redhat-list-admin@(protected)]
> On Behalf Of James Moberg
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 10:02 AM
> To: redhat-list@(protected)
> Subject: Lock up problems under Kernel 2.4.20-28.7
>
> Hi. I am not new to UNIX but am new to doing any kind of system
> administration on it. Yesterday I decided to use the RH-Linux automatic
> update feature on the gnome desktop. The first thing I did was to
> update to version 2.4.20-28.7 of the kernel. I was using version
> 2.4.18-3 of the kernel before. The download and update process worked
> fine. After the install of the kernel was finished I rebooted the
> machine and tested all of the applications that I use to see that
> everything worked fine. They did.
>
> So seeing as how the first update went so well I decided to update the
> rest of the outdated items listed by the RH-Linux automatic update
> feature. At about 25% or 30% through the download process my screen
> quickly faded to black. At first I thought my monitor died. After
> switching another one for it I realized this was not the case. Then I
> thought maybe the video card died. That was not the case either. So I
> rebooted the machine and made sure everything worked fine w/Linux. It
> seemed stable. So I tried to download the updates again.
>
> Luckily it started were it was when the machine went into limbo. About
> the same amount of time passed and the screen turned black again. I
> went through this for a total of three times before all of the updates
> were downloaded and finally installed. Now any time I start up Linux
> with the new kernel the machine locks up. This happens in either KDE or
> gnome.
>
> Has anyone experienced this? Do I maybe need to do some Kernel tuning
> and if so what would you recommend. I don 't know how to do this but
> like I said before I have been using UNIX for 8 years now and am not too
> affraid to poke around.
>
> I am running RH-Linux 7.3 on an AMD AthlonXP processor running at 1.67
> ghz. I have 512 MB of ram and a 40 gig hard drive. Also, I do have the
> hard drive partitioned off so that I can also run Windows XP (Sorry!
> It 's just a necessary evil). I used Partition Magic 7.0 to do the
> partitioning. Up until this update I had no problems with Linux. If I
> use the previous version of the Kernel things seem to be like before
> which is problem free.
>
> Any help would br greatly appreciated because the system locks up after
> 10-15 miinutes consistently.
>
I don 't know what eventually happened, but it sounds like your machine was
going into screen saver mode and all you needed to do was move the cursor, I
might be wrong though.
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