Kernel Problems: Not funny anymore

[Rick Stevens]

Seth Bardash wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of alan
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 3:54 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Kernel Problems: Not funny anymore
> 
> 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.
> 
> He said it worked fine when he went back to the old kernel.
> 
> Something was broken between 2.6.5 and = > 2.6.6
> 
> We have seen this "auto-reboot" too. We also saw that 2.6.7 broke
> X and how the kernel and X talk to the graphics cards. The
> response was to set the graphics card to vesa. The ATI Rage XL
> should not need this as this has been supported since the 2.2
> kernel.
> 
> This is becoming a trend. There seems to be a problem with keeping
> the kernel compatable with existing hardware. It might be nice to
> get a group of users together to start an FC2 or FC3 kernel test
> group so that before a release a large number of motherboard / I/O
> / Drivers combinations can be tested and the results reported back
> to bugzilla and kernel.org.
> 
> Just a suggestion..........

That's what the fedora-test-list is for.  They're always looking for
more guinea pigs.  Join up!

;-)

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