[CentOS] Problems with new kernels

Vincent Knecht
Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:37:55 -0000

> I am having same problem on an IBM thinkcentre and intermittently on an HP
> nw8240 laptop.

Used to have that too on a thinkcentre too, until I updated the BIOS...

> On 01/02/07, Thomas Dukes <tdukes at sc.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have been having problems using kernels since 2.6.9-34.0.2.  After
>> updating to a new kernel, my system runs, I'm guessing, 6 - 8 hours
>> fine,
>> then becomes unresponsive.  For example, I installed the latest kernel
>> the
>> other evening, reboot for the changes and by morning, the system
appears
>> to
>> be locked up.  Typing 'yum update' takes about 10 minutes to
execute.
>>
>> Not sure whats going on here but I'm stuck using 2.6.9-34.0.2.
This is
>> a
>> centos 4.4 system on an IBM NetVista, 2.53 Ghz, 1GB RAM.  I have
noticed
>> when there is a kernel update, it downloads the huge memeory and smp
>> files.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Eddie
>>
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