From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 08:28:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 08:28:36 -0500 Received: from pool-141-158-41-82.phil.east.verizon.net ([141.158.41.82]:47488 "EHLO jsmith.org.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 08:28:28 -0500 Subject: Problems with recent kernels From: "Justin R. Smith" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.99.0+cvs.2001.11.06.15.04 (Preview Release) Date: 08 Nov 2001 08:27:49 -0500 Message-Id: <1005226069.12034.0.camel@jsmith.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Please respond to me personally since I am not subscribed to this list. Is there a problem with some of the recent kernels? (2.4.12-2.4.14) I am running Redhat 7.1 on two systems: 1. a Pentium II system using the ext2 file systems on all partitions. 2. a Pentium III system using the ext2 file system. When I switched to kernel version 2.4.12 on both machines, I encountered problems: 1. the Pentium II machine had major file system errors on boot after clean shutdowns (major = fsck must be run in manual mode). After a few reboots, the system was unusable. I reinstalled the operating system and upgraded the kernel to 2.4.9 and it has run perfectly since. 2. the Pentium III system had different problems (under kernel 2.4.12): many applications crashed with error messages xmalloc cannot allocate 10 bytes although the system has 300 meg of RAM and a gig of swap. When I moved to the 2.4.14 kernel on the Pentium II machine, I got a file system error after a clean shutdown, but it wasn't as severe as the problems I had earlier: the damaged file system passed the fsck test. Again, retreating to 2.4.9 solved the problems. Any suggestions? --