Re: 6.0 Release freeze

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:04:14 -0500
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:09:54AM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:27:21PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > The problem with jdk-1.5, eclipse and openoffice-2 it happened with two
> > > other machines ( 1 acer notebook and other is a dell desktop ).
> > > It considers that Jdk-1.5 is in alpha stage.
> > 
> > No, userland applications do not cause spontaneous reboots unless
> > there is a deeper underlying problem.
> 
> Agreed - although this may be a different problem.
> 
> For the 6.0 machine which is freezing, the short hardware description you
> posted is insufficient. You need to post the full output of 'dmesg' so
> people here can see exactly what hardware you have. (Preferably from booting
> in verbose mode)
> 
> There is also one simple thing which is worth trying: boot with ACPI
> disabled. I suffered random reboots with early 5.x on my home machine, which
> went away when ACPI was disabled (although later 5.x series were fine). It's
> worth a try. If it works, then you can provide help to improve the ACPI
> code.

Good advice.  It's also worth pointing out that many older machines
have buggy ACPI implementations.  Sometimes this can be fixed with a
BIOS update from the vendor.

Kris


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