Crashing tips?

Thu Mar 4 23:15:27 UTC 2004

Matt Morgan wrote:

> I'm fishing for some ideas about where to start diagnosing a 
> mostly-random crashing problem.
>
> First off, let me say this is a 2.8Ghz hyperthreading pentium 4, 512 
> Mb of DDR400 ram, an Asus motherboard (not sure of the exact model), a 
> WD 80 gb drive, and a Sony CRX225 CD-RW. I have a 3COM 3C905b 100baseT 
> network card (there's also an SiS adapter built-in that I don't use), 
> and an ATI Radeon 9200SE video adapter. The sound built-in to the 
> motherboard appears to be a SiS i810_audio.
>
What kernel are you using? UP or SMP? Is hyperthreading enabled? There's 
some issues with SMP kernels lately ...
Maybe you hit one of these bugs:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497

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Pedro Macedo