Potential kernel-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 problems that are lingering on my system?

Michael Wiktowy michael.wiktowy at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 03:10:20 UTC 2006


I have been experiencing quite a lot of instability lately that seemed to
start as soon as I upgraded to kernel-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4. There was a quick
bump to kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 so I am assuming that there was something
wrong with the 1830 build. I hate to automatically blame the kernel so I
seek some guidance from those more knowledgable to try to narrow down where
my problem is if not there.
Some of the symptoms that showed up at the same time as I upgraded to 1830:
- when X started to show the login screen, it would show a blank gray screen
instead. It took a ctrl_alt_backspace to restart X and properly display the
login. Somewhere along the way, without me making any changes other than yum
updates, the login screen no longer requires the X restart to come up.
- I am getting the following error spewing many times on boot up:
modprobe: WARNING: Failed to open included config file
/etc/modprobe.conf.dist: No such file or directory
I don't know if this is just informational (i.e. not harmful) but it is
certainly unusual and Googling is not illuminating. My
modprobe.conf.distseem to be in /etc/modprobe.d/ and I am not sure if
I can just make a
symlink to repair things.
- sometimes when I stick in an audio CD in my CD drive, the audio player or
ripper seems to acknowledge that a CD is in there but fails silently to play
or rip it. Usually a reboot will fix this. This may have started when I
stuck in an old scratched CD to see if I could read what was on it and the
desktop locked up so I had to pull the power to reboot to even get the CD
out of the drive.
- when trying to move an icon around on my Gnome panel, the cursor stuck
into move-mode and the only way I could get it out was to push the "Windows"
button on my keyboard to pop up the menu. Even then it would not move the
launcher icon without getting stuck in that mode again. A reboot fixed this.

Anyways, a lot of strange errors all of a sudden after a rock solid
experience for a long time before that and I am wondering what is going on.
I am starting to suspect some sort of hardware error but I can't imagine
what could cause that array of problems ... other than a wonky kernel or
some critical file that got clobbered when I have to force a power cycle.

Just looking for some guidance from those in the know and if any of the
latest updates caused anyone else strange grief.

Thanks in advance.

/Mike
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