From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-15mdksecure i686) Either during the install (usually during the install, upgrade from 6.2) or shortly post-install, my entire system will freeze, or hang, completely dead. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start RH7.0 upgrade. 2. If upgrade succeeds, reboot system and leave it up for a while. 3. Wait for system to hang. This has always happened within several hours for me. Actual Results: System hung or froze without logs of anything happening save a 'crash'. Only a hard reset would restart it. Expected Results: System should continue to run for weeks, months, or years without hanging. Installs should not freeze in an uncompleted state. The system is an AMD Athlon 600 on a MicroStar MS 6167 Motherboard. Video is a nVidia RIVA TNT2 Ultra based card. I suspect it's the kernel version interacting with the hardware in some manner, but I can't rule out X, for sure, either, as it may have been running at all times when the crash occured - I cannot currently verify this. I first suspected the media I had, but I obtained new media, and the same problem happens, and the same media produces no problems, clean installs and systems that do not hang on a couple of other systems I"ve tried (P90 and PPro200 based). The system having the problems has been successfully running RH6.1 and 6.2 for over 18 months with no problems of this sort. Those installs were also not a problem. The system has been wiped clean at least once (save for /home) before a previous 6.2 install.
Other hardware on system: Adaptec 2940AU PCI SCSI Controller (currently only a Yahama CD-RW is hooked to this) 3com 3c509 based ethernet
MS6167 has a AMD 751 based chipset
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