Kernel 2.6.10-1.14_FC2

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:36:36PM -0500, David Curry wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > >On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:09:02PM -0500, David Curry wrote:
 > >> I downloaded the 2.6.10-1.14_FC2 kernel today and promptly rebooted to 
 > >> give it a spin.
 > >> 
 > >> My system froze up fairly quickly and then repeated that performance on 
 > >> reboot.  The only way I was able to recover control of the system in 
 > >> both instances was through pushing Reset on the box.
 > >> 
 > >> On the first occurence, I had stepped away from the machine for several 
 > >> minutes and returned to discover a screensaver pattern on the screen 
 > >> with system completely unresponsive to mouse and keyboard.
 > >> 
 > >> On the second occurence, I stepped away for a few minutes and returned 
 > >> to find a dialogue box displayed on the desktop advising that the volume 
 > >> control applet had died suddenly and asking if I wanted to restart it.  
 > >> I selected "No".  Within seconds the Gnome panel at the bottom of the 
 > >> screen disappeared and the system was unresponsive to mouse and keyboard.
 > >> 
 > >> Is anyone else experiencing this system behavior with the new kernel?
 > >
 > >Did you try the .13 one too ?  I'm curious if this is something
 > >introduced by the exec-shield fixes.
 > >
 > >		Dave
 > >
 > > 
 > >
 > NO.  I wasn't aware that there as a .13 kernel, Dave.  I moved from .12 
 > to .14 when the up2date icon advised that non-kernel updates were 
 > available and learned that .14 had been released. 

It was in the updates-testing pool only.
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/2/i386/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.13_FC2.i686.rpm

If you could give that a try and find out if it also has problems,
that would narrow it down a little.

		Dave