Is there a problem with some of the recent kernels? (2.4.12-2.4.14)
I am running Redhat 7.1 on two systems:
1. a Pentium II system using the ext2 file systems on all partitions.
2. a Pentium III system using the ext2 file system.
When I switched to kernel version 2.4.12 on both machines, I
encountered problems:
1. the Pentium II machine had major file system errors on boot after
clean shutdowns (major = fsck must be run in manual mode). After a few
reboots, the system was unusable. I reinstalled the operating system and
upgraded the kernel to 2.4.9 and it has run perfectly since.
2. the Pentium III system had different problems (under kernel 2.4.12):
many applications crashed with error messages
xmalloc cannot allocate 10 bytes
although the system has 300 meg of RAM and a gig of swap.
When I moved to the 2.4.14 kernel on the Pentium II machine, I got a
file system error after a clean shutdown, but it wasn't as severe as the
problems I had earlier: the damaged file system passed the fsck test.
Again, retreating to 2.4.9 solved the problems.
Any suggestions?
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