Unstable Fedora Installation

[Gilboa Davara]

Sounds like a hardware problem to me.
Can you post your machine configuration, include the power supply and
memory used?

Gilboa

On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 18:49 -0400, Bruce Feist wrote:
> I've installed the AMD 64-bit version of Fedora, 2.6.13, on a new 
> computer with 1 gig of RAM, one PCI-connected IDE drive, and three SATA 
> disks.  My most recent experience with Linux was RH 8.1 or so.  Bad 
> things are happening...
> 
> 1)  The computer locks up frequently.  It usually happens while I'm 
> executing rsync or rcp... which isn't surprising, since those are the 
> two main programs I'm running at the moment.  I'm trying to grab data 
> from the drives of my old RH 8.1 system -- it was hacked, and I don't 
> trust it, so I'm taking only data files from it.
> 
> 2)  After the last lockup, I turned the computer off and restarted.  All 
> seemed well until Gnome came up -- Nautilus crashed repeatedly.  I was 
> able to bring up three terminal windows, but now I cannot start up other 
> applications such as Thunderbird.  'top' reports that I'm using almost 
> all of the memory installed, although I'm barely touching the swap file; 
> I wonder if that has something to do with it.
> 
> 3)  I'm now getting various "Oops" messages from Fedora in my terminal 
> window as I rsync.  A typical sequence is something like:
> 
> Message from syslogd at janus at Sun Oct 23 13:05:06 2005 ...
> janus kernel: Oops: 0000 [1]
> Message from syslogd at janus at Sun Oct 23 13:05:07 2005 ...
> janus kernel: CR2: ffff81ff2b6df30c
> 
> There are several areas that I'm concerned about.  First, is 64-bit 
> Fedora as stable as 32-bit?  Second, I'm using SELinux... is that 
> messing me up somehow?  Third, I'm using virtual volumes to combine the 
> SATA drives; is that unstable or error-prone?  Fourth: My hardware is 
> new, and could conceivably have problems.  Fifth: There are two network 
> cards installed.  One, which will be used to connect to the Internet via 
> a DSL router, is currently not used; the other is used to connect to my 
> home network, including the older RH machine.  Could the missing network 
> connection somehow be upsetting things?  (I wouldn't think so!)
> 
> I'd appreciate any suggestions.  I'm getting nowhere solving this.
> 
> Bruce Feist
>