  | |  | Lock up problems under Kernel 2.4.20-28.7 | Lock up problems under Kernel 2.4.20-28.7 2004-01-25 - By James Moberg
Back Thanks for the reply Otto. I actually did try this and nothing happened.
Otto Haliburton wrote:
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> >-- --Original Message-- --
> >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rest of the outdated items listed by the RH-Linux automatic update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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