Problem with FC3 on a via epia

[Randy]

Hello Rob,
    I have a via EPIA-M.  Using the most recent kernel, it seems to run 
about two days before it locks up.  I have switched back to 2.6.9-1.667, 
which seemed a little more stable.  I also disabled the cpuspeed program 
this morning and I'm going to see if it helps.  I'll post the results in 
about two days, or when it crashes again, whichever comes first.
    Just for comparison, I ran FC1 on the same hardware from the day it was 
released up until a month ago without ever rebooting.  I never needed to, 
and it is on a UPS so power glitches never brought it down. It is only with 
the upgrade to FC3 that I am getting crashes/lockups every other day.  This 
morning FC3 crashed at 4am, after many hours of no activity at all, with 
nothing suspicious in the log at all.  In fact, the entries for the prior 
four hours are as follows:

Nov 26 00:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4259]: session closed for user root
Nov 26 01:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4266]: session opened for user root by 
(uid=0)
Nov 26 01:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4266]: session closed for user root
Nov 26 02:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4274]: session opened for user root by 
(uid=0)
Nov 26 02:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4274]: session closed for user root
Nov 26 03:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4284]: session opened for user root by 
(uid=0)
Nov 26 03:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4284]: session closed for user root
Nov 26 03:09:17 io dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.20 from 
00:0d:61:4a:e8:9e via eth0
Nov 26 03:09:17 io dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.20 to 00:0d:61:4a:e8:9e via eth0
Nov 26 04:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4292]: session opened for user root by 
(uid=0)
Nov 26 04:01:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4292]: session closed for user root
Nov 26 04:02:01 io crond(pam_unix)[4294]: session opened for user root by 
(uid=0)

    I'm clueless what pam_unix is doing opening sessions for user root.  It 
makes me a little nervous.  But there's nothing here that would indicate a 
system about to crash.

Randy

At 04:54 AM 11/26/2004, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On my own server, I always runned FC2 without any problems. Now I 
>installed FC3 and it's very unstable! Sometimes he runs for a few hours 
>but sometimes he crashes after only a few minutes. And in the syslog I 
>found this a several times:
>
>Warning: CPU frequency out of sync: cpufreq and timing core thinks of 
>399000, is 798000 kHz.
>
>It's a Via Epia board with the cyrix 800 cpu. I didn't overclock anything.
>
>Anybody who recognizes this or has the same problems?
>
>Rob