I ran RHL 6.1 briefly at work. My setup was RHL on a Compaq Deskpro
Pentium II system. On the desk next to it was a Sun Sparc 5, running
Solaris 2.6.
If I tried to mount an NFS share located on the Linux box from the Sparc,
the RedHat box hung, every time.
The same problem did not exist in 6.0, so I dropped back a version. Don't
know what caused it. The Sparc was running an unpatched install of the
initial Solaris dist, so It could have been a bug in the Solaris NFS
client, but whichever system was to blame, the Linux box was the one
dying...
Brian
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Bill Carlson wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > Anyone else suffering lockups on 6.1?
> >
> > When I say dead, I mean dead. X is still displayed on the screen, no IO
> > at all, not even from the network. Mouse freezes, keyboard freezes, ping
> > from another system and it's dead. No "Alt-Ctrl <BACKSPACE> - nothing.
> > NO keyboard.
> [snip]
> >
> > The one thing that is consistent is that I seem to be using (moving) the
> > (serial) mouse every time it fails. May be a coincidence, but I can leave
> > it running all night and it's fine in the morning. Start working, and It
> > can freeze.
> >
> > Could there be a problem in the serial driver? Mouse is a M$ serial.
> > Serial port is "/dev/mouse" linked to /dev/ttyS1. Couldn't be more
> > standard. The serial driver is compiled into the kernel.
> >
> > Kernel 2.2.12-20
> > XFree86-Mach64-3.3.5-3
> >
> > The box doubles (drive switch) as a combat flight simulator running Win98,
> > definitely using the Mach64 Graphics adapter, and it doesn't fail -
> > other than the typical Win98 bit-rot/memory leak problems. But no
> > freezes. So I doubt it's the graphics adapter hardware.
> >
>
> I have a box that behaves in the same manner, except it does not
> typically freeze when I am actually using the box, most often it dies
> overnight. What other hardware do you have in the machine?
>
> Mine is:
> ATI Mach63 GT (Rage II)
> TYAN motherboard
> 2940UW
> 3com 3c509
>
> Here's the fun part (for me): I have an IDENTICAL machine, other than revs
> of the motherboard and cards maybe, that does NOT suffer from this
> problem. I moved my Redhat install from one machine to the other (swapped
> drives) and problem stayed with the hardware (it is now running Mandrake
> and dieing once a day or so).
>
> I would suggest that the problem is hardware-related, exactly where is a
> good question.
>
> Something I have been trying on my bad box: if I run a flood ping, the box
> will die within minutes, so I'm beginning to suspect the 3com is the
> problem. Do you happen to run a 3com NIC?
>
> Bill Carlson
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>
>
>
>
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