From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I upgraded to the new kernel-2.4.20-18.8 10 days ago. Since then, I've experienced 3 random system lockups. It is difficult to say if it is related, but each time the system had been resumed from suspend at least once (but the hangs occured several hours afterwards). The machine is a toshiba 4090 laptop, Celeron 400MHz, I use apmd. The lockups are extremely brutal, screen freezes and the system does not respond to anything (no SysReq, no ping, not even BIOS functions like switching internel<->external screen). Never happened before. I downgraded to kernel-2.4.20-13.8 to see if that helps. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-18.8 How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1. Seems random Additional info:
No more problems since downgrading to kernel-2.4.20-13.8
I too have been having random hangs since upgrading to 2.4.20-18.8 (and 2.4.20- 19.8) on my Athlon box (RHN system details here: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/systems/details/index.pxt?sid=1000667094); meanwhile, I've had no problems on my dual-PIII. I've also reverted to the last stable version (2.4.20-13.8).
I see the same problem: several dual athlon machines freeze with kernels newer than 2.4.20-18. Freezes usually happen overnight. memtest86 finds no memory errors. No freezes seen with 2.4.20-18. No freezes on dual P-III machines. No freezes on rackmounted dual athlon machines (no desktop users, no X11, very few daemons). K.O.
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