From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) Description of problem: After the machine completes the boot, enters the runlevel 5 and I log in, it freezes after a few minutes of usage, during common operations (I am downloading a file using scp, I am opening "Save" dialog in mozilla, I click on a link in netscape). The mouse and keyboard cannot be used. It doesn't respond to ping, telnet, Power button. The only way to restart it is from Reset button. I tried to boot it in runlevel 3 (no XServer started) but it freezes as well (this time during an rpm run, for example) NOTE(!): RedHat 7.1 installed on the same machine, without any change in the hardware configuration, and no exotic drivers, works flawlessly. Win2000 works without a hitch. No thermal instability, Intel Active Monitor shows 30/29/33 Celsius for days. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: undeterministic.freezes during completely different operations. just need to wait a couple of minutes. Additional info: Hardware configuration: - Intel D850GBAL motherboard (on-board LAN & audio) - Intel 100/PRO VM on-board ethernet - Pentium 4 1.8GHz processor, CoolerMaster (well-installed:) heat sink - 2X256MB Samsung 800 RIMM - Western Digital 60GB ATA/100 drive - VisionTek Xtasy GeForce 3 Ti200 64MB graphics (using the RedHat GeForce 3 generic drivers, not the ones from nVidia website) - Nec 5700A DVD, Sony CR160E CD-R
I have a machine with the same network chip a Intel VM and a nvidia based graphics card, in the eepro mailing list recommended running "eepro100-diag -ee" to check the sleep mode of the network chip the program is at http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html, and increase the freepages parameter of the kernel with 'echo "512 1024 1536" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages'
Sounds like kernel issue.
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