kernel oops again

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Mon, 11/24/08, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: kernel oops again
> To: "Michal Jaegermann" <michal at harddata.com>
> Cc: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 9:25 AM
> --- On Mon, 11/24/08, Michal Jaegermann
> <michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>
> > Subject: Re: kernel oops again
> > To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "For testers of
> Fedora Core development releases"
> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 8:54 AM
> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 05:38:19AM -0800, Antonio
> Olivares
> > wrote:
> > > I added to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
> > > 
> > > blacklist r6189
> > > 
> > > and the system lives a little longer,
> > 
> > Seems like a coincidence.  Do you really have
> > 'r6189' module?
> I actually do not know, I got confused between r6189 and
> r8169 :(
> 
> I have kernel oops report over here:
> http://www.kerneloops.org/submitresult.php?number=105041
> 
> I will try to follow the advice of Aioanei who suggested to
> do 
> <quote>
> Remove r6189 from your blacklist and reboot.
> </quote>
> 
> > 
> > > but system still freezes after a while :(
> > ....
> > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit timed out
> > 
> > What you say is that 'r8169' gives you
> troubles. 
> > Can you really
> > blacklist that?  If this is your network connection
> than
> > this is
> > hard to do.
> > 
> > Did you add any notes to
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436841 ?
> Did not notice that bug :(, sorry .  I saw several others
> and with mainline kernel 2.6.27.2 by googling. 
> > 
> >    Michal
> 

I turned the machine on, played a few games and have left it on.  Tomorrow in the morning I will check to see if it froze.  I blacklisted r8169 module.  I hope that this does the trick.  I will inform back in either case :)

Thank you all for helping/advising!

Antonio