Fedora mysteriously hangs for no reason at all

Doug Brott brott at redh.com
Mon Mar 1 23:33:02 UTC 2004


Peter Santiago wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm using 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl kernel on an AMD Athlon 1G with 512 RAM.  Ever
>since upgrading the kernel version from the stock kernel, my machine suffers
>infrequent machine hangs.  Checking /var/log/messages doesn't show anything
>out of place.
>  
>
I added the following two options to my boot line in grub.conf

apm=off acpi=off

My entire boot line look like this:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp ro root=LABEL=/ apm=off acpi=off hdd=ide-scsi rhgb

However, your options may be slightly different.

Also, I disabled ACPI in the bios.  This only became a problem for me 
with Fedora, I never had the problem with RedHat 9.0.  Also, something 
must have changed recently, because I had corrected this problem before 
with the options spelled a different way.  After making these changes 
and rebooting, I have not had one lockup.

-- 
Doug Brott
brott at redh.com





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