CentOS - Nov 2013 - CentOS 5.7 - occasional lockup

Using Core i7 boxes with CentOS 5.7, have experienced lockups on half of a
handful of units over a couple months.  They are Logic Supply Mini-ITX
model KR960 with Core i7-3610QE.

A couple weeks ago I enabled self-reboot on kernel panic (echo 10 >
/proc/sys/kernel/panic) on all units, and had another unit lock up rather
than reboot itself.

I'm not sure how to pursue the problem.

Doing "yum update kernel*" shows there's a newer kernel,
2.6.18-371.1.2.el5 - I'm using the stock 2.6.18-274.el5 kernel now -
where's a change log of the differences so I can see if there are driver
or kernel updates that might seem to apply?

I don't know if setting up kdump would help since it doesn't even seem
to
be getting to the point where the kernel is trying to handle a panic.

What else might I try?

On 11/16/2013 9:50 PM, whitivery wrote:
> What else might I try?
centos 6.latest ?    or at least 5.latest....    5.7 is circa 2011, 
there's dozens of kernel patches since then, its up to 5.10 now.



-- 
john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 09:50:49PM -0800, whitivery
wrote:
> 
> What else might I try?
Updating to something supported?  Current in the 5 series is 5.10; 5.7
has been unsupported for quite some time now.




							John
-- 
 "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands
  explained."

-- Mark Twain
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