Re: Another 2.2.5 crash, and it's not X, dammit!

Stefan Laudat (stefan@ns.asit.ro)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:16:04 +0300


> This time, the system spontaneously rebooted, rather than just freezing.
> Neither of these things has _ever_ happened to me, as far as I can remember,
> while using a finished stable kernel (1.0.9, 1.2.13, 2.0.29+), so I don't

Ummmm... maybe you have a _slight_ conflict in some of your hardware stuff there... bad coolers (45% less
possible if you said 2.0.xx kernels were stable) or there might be a hidden bug in a new 2.2 driver...
It will be more useful if you post your h/w configuration :)

> I guess about the only useful information from this is that 2.2 is not yet
> as stable as it will be, and people who need it for high-availability
> applications should wait a while longer (or help fix bugs).

I just can't understand your anger...
As a matter of fact I'm using 2.2 from its "pre" stages and didn't blow my system up at all. Only the
2.2.0-pre6 vfat bug made me cry for a 3Gigs amount of lost data but that's life and, after all,
backup product vendors should earn their money in a honest way, don't you think ?
Anyhow, my system is even overclocked, stuffed to death with weird components (different scsi controllers,
cdwriter, 1 voodoo card, 2 pci NICs,a scsi and ide hdd) making NT and win9x die like bastards :-X and
Linux is _very_ stable on it :)

Stefan.

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