[SLE] Random crashes of 9.1 [SOLVED]

From: Jan van Male (j.van.male_at_chem.leidenuniv.nl)
Date: 10/12/04

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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:07:28 +0100

    Hi all,

    Just so that this is archived, I couldn't find a similar problem in the
    archives of the list.

    After installing 9.1 I was experiencing hard freezes of the total system,
    about 5 to 15 minutes after booting. No remote login possible, only reset
    would help. I tried YOU (Online Update) but it would fail at random during
    download of patches. Crashes would also happen without running YOU. In
    hindsight, the fact that I am on a large network with windows NT, XP and Macs
    was probably the direct cause for my problems.

    I tried installing from different media (CD's instead of DVD) but the same
    problems remained. I suspected bad RAM. Strange for a computer that has been
    running for 3 years without a problem but anyway after running memtest for
    several hours, I ruled out this possibility.

    Reading the Security Announcements for the kernel, I hoped that a kernel
    update would fix it. However, it is kind of hard to update the kernel through
    YOU if it crashes every time the download of the patch is about halfway
    finished.

    Finally, I downloaded the kernel update patch on a different OS and
    subsequently did a manual install. After that all problems seem solved.

    top - 12:04:27 up 5 days, 19:10, 8 users, load average: 0.44, 0.17, 0.11

    Jan van Male 

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