Strange crashes that make me say "huh?"

[Doug E. Miller]

Hi Lincoln,

  Just from reading, and rereading, your messages, it looks like those 
GNOME-related updates that came from Ximian Red Carpet may be suspect.

Doug.



On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:21:55 -0800 "Lincoln Peters"
<lincoln_peters at hotmail.com> writes:
> 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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