Is anyone else having kernel problems?

[Iain Stevenson]

Things seem to be moving in the right direction.  2.4.19-pre10 hasn't been 
bad but it has hung a couple of times when running Mozilla.  There seem to 
be some serious bugs in 2.4.19-rc1 so sticking with your best old kernel 
seems a good option.

  Iain



--On Sunday, June 30, 2002 5:53 pm -0500 Robert Serphillips 
<rserphillips@austin.rr.com> wrote:

> I've also been having some serious problems with this kernel. That's
> why I'm moving back to the 2.4.18 kernel which I've had no problems
> with. Well, except with the ydl 2.2 source package that gives me
> unresolved symbols for certain modules, but that's another thread I
> started. The 2.4.18-ben0 final kernel was rock solid but I can't seem
> to find the source anywhere for it. ppckernel.org only lists the
> newest.
>
> This kernel has serious problems. I had the same experience you
> described below but a bit more extreme.
>
> copying to my NFS partition causes lots of errors with the 8139
> Realtek card (D-link 530tx). It's also a bit slow. I have no problems
> with the 2.4.18.
>
> uptime has been almost embarrassing. 2 day tops. Usually I get a panic
> everyday. Sometimes every few hours. I don't use ext3 so I don't think
> it's related to that.  Most of the time I have a log entry at 4:02 AM
> for some cron job. When I check my email at 8:00 it's already hosed.I
> have had it die at other time too.
>
> I haven't noticed any file system corruption.
>
> The only reason I  upgraded was because the mesh driver was finally
> fixed, so I could use my Yamaha cdrw2100. I guess I can live with
> backing up to my NFS disk
>
> -Rob
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 05 May 2002 19:26:19 +0100
> Iain Stevenson <iain@iainstevenson.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> .. I remember starting this thread and I'm still having kernel
>> problems. I'm starting to feel like a veteran kernel compiler and
>> it's no fun.
>>
>> The difficulties I have had with the 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 kernels have
>> been:
>>
>> - failures to compile certain drivers
>> - failures to boot
>> - file system corruption (EXT3) with some of the 2.4.19-pre series
>>
>> Kernels that have built have performed very strangely indeed and
>> failed in non-repeatable ways but with a partially common failure
>> scenario ie:
>>
>> - boot kernel, everything OK generally for up to a week
>> - a program (mrtg), a daemon (cron) or the filesystem starts to do
>> really funny things
>> - the system crashes in the early hours of the following morning
>> - there are no log messages giving clues to the problem.
>>
>> Rebooting seems to restart the cycle.  I built the latest Ben kernel
>>
>> yesterday and that booted, I'm hoping it keeps going ...  My system
>> is on an "Old World" Mac with the root partition on IDE disks
>> running as a RAID1 array.
>>
>> This has started to dent my confidence in Linux - it seems to me
>> that the 2.4 series has had just a tad too much experimental stuff
>> cobbled into it.
>>
>>   Iain
>>
>>
>>
>> --On Sunday, May 5, 2002 6:58 pm +0200 Graham Leggett
>> <minfrin@sharp.fm> wrote:
>>
>> > "Stephen J. Sanders" wrote:
>> >
>> >>  I tried 2.4.19-pre7-ben0 and had to give up on it.  I didn't
>> > have> the problem of being dumped into the debugger, but I started
>> > to see> some VERY strange behaviors in using automake and
>> > libtool--for longer> programs I kept getting messages about bad
>> > libtool archives and other> errors that suggested that an internal
>> > system buffer might be getting> overwritten, although this latter
>> > is speculation on my part.Switching> back to the default YDL 2.2
>> > kernel fixed the problems.
>> >
>> > The key word here is "pre", which means "prerelease", which in
>> > turn means "probably won't work, use at own risk".
>> >
>> > If you're running a production system, use a production kernel.
>> >
>> > [from previous post]
>> >> >>> I've been having real problems with kernels lately - so much
>> > so that> >>> I yhink it needs to be flagged for users.
>> > Specifically, for late> >>> 2.4.17 thru 2.4.19 kernels:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> - a number of the 2.4.19pre kernels fail to build
>> >> >>> - several, including benh versions have been unstable
>> >> >>> - a couple failed to boot (dropping into the debugger at cron
>> > or> >>> swapper tasks)
>> >> >>> - one created a filesystem error
>> >> >>> - another started spewing garbage out of the imap socket
>> > after a week> >>>
>> >> >>> This is BAD and can only make people very wary of Linux in
>> > general.> >>> Does anyone know the status of work to iron these
>> > problems out?  My> >>> system is a 9600 with PowerLogix processor
>> > upgrade booting from SCSI> >>> but running Linux
>> >
>> > This is not bad at all.
>> >
>> > Take note of the label "prerelease" on the kernel version, and
>> > choose your kernel accordingly.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Graham
>> > --
>> > -----------------------------------------
>> > minfrin@sharp.fm		"There's a moon
>> > 					over Bourbon Street
>> > 						tonight..."
>>
>>
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