Re: 2.2.11 unstable?

[Rui Sousa]

Jon Masters wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>     I don't want you guys to take this the wrong way, but since I
> upgraded to 2.2.11, my machine has had more attacks of "instability"
> than an old winblows 95 pentium which my mother uses to do word
> processing. I am used to the odd crash or two - it's only natural
> (personally, I *never* blame the kernel, it's always gotta be a power
> spike or alpha particle - Linux would never normally crash, it's just
> too damm good :). However, over the last couple of weeks since I
> upgraded, I have *not* upgraded any other system components (i.e.
> exactly the same environment as under 2.2.10) but have had countless
> problems. Sometimes the machine simply hangs for no apparent reason,
> processes die without explanation (logins, X, etc...) I'm used to
> Netscape crashing, but this is now at least once every 15-30 mins. gmc
> crashes once approximately every 5 mins (or after more than one or two
> file operations) and so do other file managers. Sound often fails
> completely. Machine has become more sluggish, internet connections have
> died more often than usual, mounting partitions can cause system
> crashes, and that's just the beginning. Don't even start mentioning the
> crypto stuff or anything graphical like X. :) basically what I'm saying
> is that my routine system problems have been magnified probably by an
> order of mahnitude over the last couple of weeks. I *fear* trying to run
> more than a couple of things in X because otherwise it crashes or the
> system hangs.... I guess I'll have to downgrade the kernel to 2.2.10 if
> this continues. I just hope that we have 2.2.12 soon.
> 

I think you should downgrade as soon as possible to 2.2.10 and then
realize that your problems are still there :-(

In other words: Are you sure it's not a hardware problem?

Rui Sousa