Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:02:23 -0500 | From | dglidden@illusion ... | Subject | 2.2.14 makes X unstable |
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I've finally gotten around to upgrading both my workstation and my laptop to use the 2.2.14 kernel from 2.2.12 which I've had running on them since about the time 2.2.12 came about. Since I put 2.2.14 on them, they're both very unstable under X, with either random apps under X or X itself just crashing without warning. (X reports a "signal 11" and drops back to a prompt.) Unfortunately, since I spend all my time in X, I can't tell if this is strictly related to running X on 2.2.14 or not. I do have a server running 2.2.13 that has an uptime of a few weeks that hasn't been giving me any problem however. (It's not running X for anything.)
I'm fairly confident that my problems are related to 2.2.14 since I can run booted with 2.2.14 for only a few hours at a time before something crashes, but if I reboot back into 2.2.12 I can run for days without any problems showing up. (Of course, this might just be because failures are less frequent under 2.2.12. I can't say for sure that a failure WON'T happen, only that it hasn't.)
They have both basically been RedHat 6.0 machines with my own kernel configured and installed. (Using 'make oldconfig' to carry over the same configurations between kernels.) X is version 3.3.5. In the last week or so I've reinstalled the workstation with RedHat 6.1 to see if new libraries, new binaries, etc, would help but it still has the same problem with 2.2.14 being unstable and the same solution of continuing to run 2.2.12 making the machine stable again.
The laptop is: Toshiba Satellite 4015CDS P-II 266Mhz (Deschutes stepping 02) 96MB RAM 4GB IDE on PIIX controller C&T 65555 video chipset w/2MB of RAM
The workstation is: Dual celeron 450Mhz on a DFI mobo (P2/XBL I think) 256MB RAM Adaptec 2940 Ultra-Wide SCSI Diamond V770 AGP (TNT2 Ultra) with 32MB RAM
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