Bug 56120 – machine freezes (hangs) after few minutes

Bug 56120 - machine freezes (hangs) after few minutes

Summary:	machine freezes (hangs) after few minutes

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2001-11-12 20:53 EST by Need Real Name
Modified:	2008-08-01 12:22 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-09-30 11:39:16 EDT
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Description Need Real Name 2001-11-12 20:53:20 EST

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. 

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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

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2001-12-14 11:16:07 EST

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'

Comment 2 David Lawrence 2004-08-25 09:59:40 EDT

Sounds like kernel issue.

Comment 3 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 11:39:16 EDT

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/

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