Bug 71475 – System freezes at random intervals.

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Bug 71475 - System freezes at random intervals.

Summary:	System freezes at random intervals.

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	high Severity high
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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2002-08-13 23:02 EDT by Peter Smith
Modified:	2011-11-11 11:47 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2002-08-26 20:31:31 EDT
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Description Peter Smith 2002-08-13 23:02:34 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
System freezes (no keyboard response, no mouse response, no response to ping) 
randomly, but usually during network activity.  First happened during up2date 
run after initial installation.
Repeated reformats and reinstallations have eliminated Promise IDE cards or 
ampd as cause.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Kernel 2.4.18-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Reformat HDD
2.Install RH 7.3
3.Run up2date or Netscape, or, leave idle and wait (max 36 hours).
	

Actual Results:  No response to keyboard, no response to mouse.
Samba shares unavailable.  No response to ping requests.
Reboots happily after power cycle and integrity check, but freezes again soon 
after.
System is unusable.

Expected Results:  A system that runs for months, unattended.

Additional info:

There appear to be no error reports anywhere.
I attach a couple of sysreport outputs.

Comment 1 Peter Smith 2002-08-13 23:05:35 EDT

Created attachment 70484 [details]
Output from sysreport command

Comment 2 Peter Smith 2002-08-23 01:44:46 EDT

Fixed by installing kernel-2.4.18-10 update as advised in RHSA-2002:158-09 -
"race in the dcache"

Comment 3 Peter Smith 2002-08-25 20:18:38 EDT

Installing kernel-2.4.18-10 appeared to fix the problem on Friday, and I was 
able to complete all updates.

Now I find that the system froze again at midday on Saturday while running the 
default screensavers.

Comment 4 Peter Smith 2002-08-26 20:31:25 EDT

System also freezes at init level 3.

Comment 5 Peter Smith 2002-09-01 19:40:58 EDT

At the suggestion of RedHat support, I have changed the NIC driver from 
eepro100 to e100.

The system has now run for seven days without problems.

Comment 6 Kjartan Maraas 2011-11-11 11:47:45 EST

*** Bug 748158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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