Kernel Problems: Not funny anymore
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Fri Aug 20 21:54:12 UTC 2004
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>
> So like everyone else I'm updating the home system here with
> whatever the repos have available. Fairly vanilla hardware, working for
> years, and I don't mess with it much, either.
>
> One day 'yum update' offers me kernel-2.6.6-1.435. I reboot to it,
> expecting to have to mess with the Nvidia drivers, but I never get that
> far- instant reboot. No text, no explanation, just BEEP! and I see the
> BIOS re-init. Very funny.
>
> So I stay with the old kernel, kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2. A couple of
> days or weeks go by.
>
> Today I was offered kernel-2.6.8-1.521. Instant reboot.
>
> This is no longer a fluke; this is a trend.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Is anyone ELSE having this glaring problem?
>
> 2. What can I do to learn why *I* am having it?
>
> 3. Is this thing going to keep happening?
Does it work if you go back to a previous kernel? (They should still be
on the list.) If it does not work with that either, you may have a
hardware problem. Memtest86 is your friend at that point.
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