RH 7.3 Locking Up - Help!

I'd say the standard trouble shooting questions would be a good place to
start. What was the last thing you did before the problem started, Any
recent changes, etc...

After that try looking at what processes are running up to the time of the
crash. Try stopping them one at a time, maybe you'll find a culprit.

Have you been keeping your packages up to date? Look through Red Hat's
errata page and look for descriptions similar to what's happening on your
system.
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh73-errata-bugfixes.html

This is the best I can offer...
Bart

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Victor
Odhner
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 8:18 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: RH 7.3 Locking Up - Help!


No response from the list after some 35 hours.
I'm still twisting in the wind with this one.
Any ideas, anyone?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RH 7.3 Locking Up - Help!
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:55:22 -0700
From: Victor Odhner <vodhner@cox.net>
Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Hi, folks. I need some diagnostic tips here.

Tonight I have found that I can no longer work
under RH 7.3 on my dual-boot system. It keeps
locking up, very early into each session,
whether working in X or at the console prompt.
Win98SE is running fine.

I think I'm always hitting the disk when it
happens. The mouse and keyboard stop
responding to all input, and the reset
button is the only way out.

X is running in every case, but I can hang it
without even logging onto X, instead working
in a console window. In that case, my lockups
generally happen when I CD to a different
volume, or once when I tried to mount one.
In many cases this is a VFAT or FAT-32 volume,
because I have all my Win98 volumes mounted.

I'm running three IDE drives. Because I had
to shut it off rudely, I ran the "File System
Integrity Check" which went through all my
mounted volumes. The Linux volumes are Ext3.
I also went over to Windows and ran Scandisk
on all three physical drives, though not on
all partitions. No sign of disk trouble.

I'm guessing some sort of kernel corruption.

I have very, very little time to tinker
with the system, so this is killing me.

Ideas on how I can diagnose this?

I'm thinking that installing RH 8.0 might
possibly overcome the problem. That's a
very Redmondian Voodoo approach, but I
have no ideas at this point.

I sent this as a separate follow-up message:
Note -- I just ran in single-user mode to save
my work over to a Windows partition, and there
was no problem with that session: cd, mount -a,
editing on fstab, all went fine.

Vic

http://members.cox.net/vodhner/
    -- or --
http://www.newearth.org/~victor/resume.html

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