Is anyone else having kernel problems?

[Stephen J. Sanders]

Murias,
 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.
...steve 

>The below was originally posted about a month ago.  So I figured that 
>maybe by a months time something might be worked out.  Well, I just 
>compiled the 2.4.19-pre7, compiled very nicely. even booted.  Once it got 
>to the console login.... it dumped me into the debugger. so close... 

>has anyone figured out how to get this kernel to work as of yet?

>Murias


>>>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 
>
>>from an IDE RAID array off a Sonnet card.

>>>
>>>  Iain
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