Hi
I ran 2.4.19rc3 but my feeling is: Netscape 6.2 and (KDE3) Konqueror
showed a high number of spontaneous crashes. 256MB Ram xosview shows a few
megs of swap used. My pencam program didn't download pictures under
2.4.19rc3 and it does under 2.4.17.
Kees
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, kees wrote:
> Hi
> I ran 2.4.19rc3 but my feeling is: Netscape 6.2 and (KDE3) Konqueror
> showed a high number of spontaneous crashes. 256MB Ram xosview shows a few
>...
You say Netscape and Konqueror crash significantely more often when
running 2.4.19-rc3 compared to running the same applications under 2.4.17?
Let's try to track it down:
- Do only Netscape/Konqueror crash or does X crash or does the whole
computer crash?
- Is there any error message when the browsers crash, if yes which?
- Are there any suspicious messages in /var/log/syslog or
/var/log/messages that might help in tracking this down?
- Is your 2.4.17 a plain ftp.kernel.org kernel or a kernel shipped by your
distribution?
- Do you apply any patches to your kernels?
- Do you ever load non-free kernel modules like e.g. the one from NVidia?
If yes, are your problems reproducible if no non-free modules were
_ever_ loaded since the last reboot?
- Is there anything "special" or unusual with your machine (is it a
laptop, root filesystem is on NFS or XFS, unusual hardware,...)?
> Kees
cu
Adrian
--
You only think this is a free country. Like the US the UK spends a lot of
time explaining its a free country because its a police state.
Alan Cox
Hi,
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, kees wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > I ran 2.4.19rc3 but my feeling is: Netscape 6.2 and (KDE3) Konqueror
> > showed a high number of spontaneous crashes. 256MB Ram xosview shows a few
> >...
>
> You say Netscape and Konqueror crash significantely more often when
> running 2.4.19-rc3 compared to running the same applications under 2.4.17?
>
> Let's try to track it down:
> - Do only Netscape/Konqueror crash or does X crash or does the whole
> computer crash?
Only the apps, no X crash.
> - Is there any error message when the browsers crash, if yes which?
No messages
> - Are there any suspicious messages in /var/log/syslog or
> /var/log/messages that might help in tracking this down?
No messages, taht was the fisrt thing I looked.
> - Is your 2.4.17 a plain ftp.kernel.org kernel or a kernel shipped by your
> distribution?
Plain kernel from source tree
> - Do you apply any patches to your kernels?
Not this kernel(s)
> - Do you ever load non-free kernel modules like e.g. the one from NVidia?
No
> If yes, are your problems reproducible if no non-free modules were
> _ever_ loaded since the last reboot?
> - Is there anything "special" or unusual with your machine (is it a
> laptop, root filesystem is on NFS or XFS, unusual hardware,...)?
SMP, MSI mobo
Nothing that I can think of. Viewing webpages just did crash the app. very
often , something that got away when switching back to 2.4.17
Java(?)
>
> > Kees
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
> --
>
> You only think this is a free country. Like the US the UK spends a lot of
> time explaining its a free country because its a police state.
> Alan Cox
>
>
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 08:15:10PM +0200, kees wrote:
> My pencam program didn't download pictures under
> 2.4.19rc3 and it does under 2.4.17.
This is probably because you now have a USB kernel driver binding to
your pencam device (stv680). Either unload it and then run your
userspace program, or don't build that driver at all.
thanks,
greg k-h