From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756154AbZBPAWS (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:22:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754079AbZBPAWH (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:22:07 -0500 Received: from Mycroft.westnet.com ([216.187.52.7]:60950 "EHLO Mycroft.westnet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753174AbZBPAWG (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:22:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18840.45474.829954.528820@stoffel.org> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:21:54 -0500 From: "John Stoffel" To: Philippe Grenard Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jaswinder Singh Rajput , John Stoffel , Len Brown Subject: Re: PROBLEM: cannot get stable system since 2.6.28 kernel In-Reply-To: <200902151317.11690.philippe.grenard@laposte.net> References: <200902131944.56634.philippe.grenard@laposte.net> <200902140917.38313.philippe.grenard@laposte.net> <3f9a31f40902140124j4bb07aeej8af3dff89e347318@mail.gmail.com> <200902151317.11690.philippe.grenard@laposte.net> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.9 under Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Philippe" == Philippe Grenard writes: Philippe> On Saturday 14 February 2009 10:24:51 Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Philippe Grenard >> >> wrote: >> > On Friday 13 February 2009 21:48:30 John Stoffel wrote: >> >> Here's your problem most probably. The nVidia graphics module. >> >> Remove that and re-try your system. Basically, we can't help you when >> >> you use a vendor's binary module. >> >> >> >> John >> > >> > Well, it does not change anything to my problem... >> > Moreover, I don't understand why this would work with 2.6.27.10 but not >> > with 2.6.29-rc4 .... >> >> May be nvidia graphics module was written based on some kernel which >> is more closer to 2.6.27.10 as compare to 2.6.29-rc4. >> >> Another thing which John is pointing configure your bios to use >> standard inbuild garphics card OR remove nvidia module and check >> whether it solves your problem or not. >> >> -- >> JSR Philippe> As I said just before, I tried it but it does not change my Philippe> problem : the system still stalls randomly, sometimes during Philippe> boot, sometimes after... This smells even more of hardware problems then. Did you change anything recently besides your kernel? And does the system still reliably run with the older kernel? If you have a second Linux computer, you can setup a newconsole to hopefully capture and then post more details about your system when it boots and crashes. I'd personally pull any extra disks, re-seat memory, turn down the systems settings in the BIOS to very conservative numbers, etc. No overclocking at all. Also, try removing all but one memory module and seeing if that helps. John