Strange crashes that make me say "huh?"

[Mark Street]

Come to think of it I am seeing about 100 or so zombie 'sh' processes when
I run nautilus now....  After the last round of Ximian Red Carpet updates.

No strange crashes but I thought I might mention it.  Still digging
around.


On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Doug E. Miller wrote:

> 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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