I have now been running Mandrake 9.1 with the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel
for about 3 weeks. At this point it is starting to be annoying that
this kernel locks up more often than even Micro$oft Windoze.
The lock up will happen anything from 5 minutes to 10 hours of boot.
It must be the kernel locking up since there is no response to the
SysRq+Alt+... keys.
This happens routinely, but irregular, so I have no idea how to track
it. I tried maximizing the information to syslog by choosing
*.* /var/log/syslog
in /etc/syslog.conf. A typical entry looks like this:
Jul 6 14:42:18 pan spamd[5914]: identified spam (9.3/5.0) for turtle:501 in 0.4
seconds, 3321 bytes.
Jul 6 14:45:00 pan CROND[5928]: (turtle) CMD (/usr/sbin/anacron -t
$HOME/bin/shell/cron/anacrontab)
Jul 6 14:45:00 pan anacron[5929]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2003-07-06
Jul 6 14:45:00 pan anacron[5929]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
Jul 6 14:47:12 pan syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Jul 6 14:47:12 pan /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifplugd eth1
Jul 6 14:47:12 pan ifplugd[1526]: Using interface eth1/00:02:2D:40:D0:92
Jul 6 14:47:12 pan ifplugd[1526]: ETHTOOL_GLINK failed: Operation not supported
which means that I have booted around 14:46:45. Thus there does not
appear to be any programs running just before the lock up.
So at this point I would like suggestions:
- how can I get more debug information from the kernel
- should I change to a different kernel, e.g., vanilla 2.4.21. Or
should I consider one of the patched ones.
Thanks
/Peter
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