Is anyone else having kernel problems?

[Robert Serphillips]

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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