From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010316 Description of problem: The systems hangs after a few minutes of use (completely frozen, requiring power cycling). This happens with 7.2, but not with 7.1 on the same systems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot 7.2 2.run netscape for a while (or any other network application) 3.the system hangs within a short time Actual Results: The system invariably hangs (by doing any number of things, so far all have been while on the network). Expected Results: The system to keep running beautifully as 7.1 does! Additional info: I have tried this on two identical systems. These are 1600 MHz Pentium 4 systems from IBM (NetVista) with 256MB of RAM. Both hang with 7.2, but do not appear to hang with 7.1.
NOTE: I have also observed the system hang with no X-windows running. I was simply running rsync from the console (with no windows) and the system froze after a few minutes. I suspect a swap problem.
I have the exact same problem on my system: Tyan Tiger 133 with dual PIII 550 384 MB DRAM 40GB Samsung EIDE HD ATI Radeon 7200 VIVO My system is stable under 7.1, but hangs after a short period of use under 7.2. I tested this under the SMP kernel and the UP kernel.
Is this still true for the updated kernel errata ?
Hi, I cannot keep the system up long enough to download the errata kernel, so I do not know.
I installed 7.2 again, after downloading the errata kernel to a Windows ME partition. The system lasted long enough for me to install the kernel. After it crashed, I selected the errata kernel. Same behavior. After a few minutes, the system had to be power-cycled. I then back-reved to 7.1
I had a very similar problem with 7.2. I'm running with an Intel D845HV motherbd w. P1.5 ghz, 256 meg, ATI rage pro AGP graphics card. The system is solid as a rock under 7.1. With 7.2 it will hang randomly sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes after an hour or so. I'm using KDE as the desktop. I've since reverted back to 7.1 and haven't had to reboot since.
Hello Had the same problem until resently. My solution was to rebuild the kernel using the 2.4.18 instead of 2.4.7-10. I am not 100% certain that this solves the problem, but right now I have been able to download about 1 gig of sorcecode over FTP from another server, and it seems to be running quite stable. Also the machine has been up and runnung (including Xserver and a sybase server) for about 3 hours. So it might be worth a try. Ben
I have the same problem with a newer Gateway machine. RedHat 7.2 hangs routinely, especially while running Mozilla, or gftp, or simply using X. Thought this problem might be the video card: NVIDIA GeForce 2 or the security on my system??
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/