Strange crashes that make me say "huh?"

[Lincoln Peters]

I applied that line to my bootloader as soon as I heard about it (remember 
that I experienced a crash at about the same time that the bug was 
discovered?).  I'm pretty sure that that's not the problem (or the fix 
didn't work).  Also, that AGP wouldn't explain why I haven't had any 
problems while I've been working in KDE instead of GNOME.  Perhaps it's a 
problem somewhere in GNOME?


>From: "Warren Raquel" <warquel at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
>To: <talk at nblug.org>
>Subject: Re: Strange crashes that make me say "huh?"
>Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:04:38 -0800
>
>I've had similar problems before. It was actually an 800 Duron system I use
>for development. It always hung whenever I would try to start X. I added
>that mem=nopentium line to my bootloader to fix the AMD AGP bug and so far
>haven't had a problem. I don't know if that will solve that for you, have
>you tried it?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lincoln Peters" <lincoln_peters at hotmail.com>
>To: <talk at nblug.org>
>Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 5:18 PM
>Subject: Strange crashes that make me say "huh?"
>
>
> > I just updated a bunch of software packages on my computer (RedHat 7.2 
>on
>an
> > Athlon/1GHz, GNOME-related updates came from Ximian Red Carpet, all 
>other
> > came from Red Hat Network), and ever since I've been having having 
>totally
> > unexplainable lock-ups that I can only resolve with a reboot (either 
>using
> > the reset button or the magic SysRq kjey).  I have no idea what's going 
>on
> > because I can't find anything in my kernel logs that would explain it, 
>but
>I
> > do know that it's not just an X server crash because I can't ping the
> > computer when one of these lock-ups occurrs.
> >
> > I only have a few bits of information.  Among the upgrades was a new 
>build
> > of the kernel.  I tried re-compiling it with all the debugging features,
>and
> > still found nothing.  I then tried re-compiling the kernel for a 386, 
>and
> > that kernel failed to boot (some sort of problem with ext3fs).  After
>about
> > half a dozen kernel re-compiles, I'm at the same place I started at.
> >
> > There is one thing that may be a clue (but I don't know what it means):
>Just
> > for the heck of it, I tried logging into KDE instead of GNOME, and for 
>the
> > last half an hour or so (usually it would crash within 10 minutes of
>login),
> > it's still running fine.  At least I seem to be up and running again, 
>but
>I
> > have no idea how or why!
> >
> > Has anyone ran into problems like this before?  Does anyone see anything
> > happening that I don't?
> >
> >
> >
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