Problem with FC3 on a via epia

[Rob Sonke]

Hi,

So I'm not the only one, maybe it's something with the Via chipset or 
the cyrix processor.
I'll hope that it's the cpuspeed program which invokes the problem, let 
me know and I'll disable it too.

At FC2 I never had any problems, only at the install I needed another 
kernel but after that everything went fine.
I'm looking forward to your considerations.

Rob


Randy wrote:

> 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
>
>