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Subject: Re: dell inspiron and 2.4.18?
To: jjasen1@umbc.edu (John Jasen)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:19:59 -0800 (PST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0203020004440.5865235-100000@irix2.gl.umbc.edu> from "John Jasen" at Mar 02, 2002 12:11:45 AM
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From: barryn@pobox.com (Barry K. Nathan)
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John Jasen wrote:
> I have a Dell Inspiron 3700 running Redhat 7.2 with the latest updates,
> and I just upgraded to kernel 2.4.18. On random intervals, usually within
> about 10 minutes of usage, it hangs completely solid.
[snip]
> Anyway, the short form: anyone else have any problems, or have I gone
> crazy again?

My own Inspiron 5000e is running a heavily patched-up (-jam with
grsecurity and a few other things merged in) 2.4.18-based kernel with no
problems.

I installed 2.4.18-ac2 on an Inspiron 7500 today, and rpm started
corrupting its database repeatedly (rpm --rebuilddb would only fix things
until I installed or freshened a few more packages, then the corruption
would come back). Upgrading rpm to the 4.0.3 release candidate from
Rawhide, then doing another rpm --rebuilddb to be safe, made this problem
completely disappear however, and the system is otherwise totally stable
so far.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
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