Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Linux 2.1.27 | Date | Sun, 02 Mar 1997 02:33:13 -0500 | From | shendrix@escape ... |
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My experiences with 2.1.27 have been fairly good, but I do have questions.
* heavy SCSI activity locked up my machine completely. I'd give out the error messages and warnings, but there are none. In kernel 2.0.29 I usually get longer uptimes (when running a system-killer IO script)
* where do these errors come from when booting:
Mar 1 18:34:39 escape kernel: Error seeking in /dev/kmem Mar 1 18:34:39 escape kernel: Error adding kernel module table entry.
I could not find them in the kernel sources.
* in.h and un.h do not have sa_family_t defined... I fixed this by including linux/socket.h in each of them
* I get lots of these:
Mar 1 23:00:02 escape kernel: TCPv4 bad checksum from 42027bcc:0050 to 229aa1ce :0467, len=1480/1480/1500
This occurs in the middle of a bunch of auth/tcp server failing messages. I don't remember them in the recent past.
* I get a message when disconnecting from my ISP about pppd not properly specifying its route, and this is another error message that I cannot find.
* traceroute runs for me... but all legs marked unreachable... I have the net-tools packages recommended in the changelog
* when using ftp now, traffic is much higher than before at all times except file transfer, which seems normal (if a tiny bit slower) I'm running PPP, not ethernet.
* nfs modules on my system no longer work... failed dependencies, even when it looks to me like everything should be fine.
* has anyone noticed if X operations seem slower? I'll have time for real testing next week... but for right now, I at least ``feel'' like X slowed down.
I should mention I've had SCSI trouble since the first day I upgraded to a DPT 2044W PCI controller. As kernel revisions marched forward from 1.3.9x, the problems have gradually gone away, but I still have occasional lockups with no warnings errors and/or scsi bus lockups after warnings about media sense and/or timeouts.
It is not my hardware, cables, drives, etc. The system works flawlessly with a slower (1540B) controller. Something wicked yet lurks in the SCSI code, IMHO.
I did the full upgrade of all compiler/library/loader/etc packages and it runs fairly well but for the problems above.
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