2.4.19.rc3 vs 2.4.17

2.4.19.rc3 vs 2.4.17

[kees]

Hi
I ran 2.4.19rc3 but my feeling is: Netscape 6.2 and (KDE3) Konqueror
showed a high number of spontaneous crashes. 256MB Ram xosview shows a few
megs of swap used.  My pencam program didn't download pictures under
2.4.19rc3 and it does under 2.4.17.
Kees

Re: 2.4.19.rc3 vs 2.4.17

[J Sloan]

Hi,

2 comments just from an end-user perspective:

1. netscape 6.2 is nowhere near stable anyway -
I'd recommend either netscape 7-pr1, or a
recent mozilla (1.0, 1.1b or latest nightly)

2. Try one of the "enhanced" kernels, e,g,
2.4.19-rc3-ac2 or 2.4.19-rc3aa1 - they have
bugfixes and performance enhancements

Joe

kees wrote:

>Hi
>I ran 2.4.19rc3 but my feeling is: Netscape 6.2 and (KDE3) Konqueror
>showed a high number of spontaneous crashes. 256MB Ram xosview shows a few
>megs of swap used.  My pencam program didn't download pictures under
>2.4.19rc3 and it does under 2.4.17.
>Kees
>
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Re: 2.4.19.rc3 vs 2.4.17

[kees]

Hi,

I'll give it a try in the next days.
tnx

Kees

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, J Sloan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2 comments just from an end-user perspective:
>
> 1. netscape 6.2 is nowhere near stable anyway -
> I'd recommend either netscape 7-pr1, or a
> recent mozilla (1.0, 1.1b or latest nightly)
>
> 2. Try one of the "enhanced" kernels, e,g,
> 2.4.19-rc3-ac2 or 2.4.19-rc3aa1 - they have
> bugfixes and performance enhancements
>
> Joe
>
> kees wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >I ran 2.4.19rc3 but my feeling is: Netscape 6.2 and (KDE3) Konqueror
> >showed a high number of spontaneous crashes. 256MB Ram xosview shows a few
> >megs of swap used.  My pencam program didn't download pictures under
> >2.4.19rc3 and it does under 2.4.17.
> >Kees
> >
> >-
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Re: 2.4.19.rc3 vs 2.4.17

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, kees wrote:

> Hi
> I ran 2.4.19rc3 but my feeling is: Netscape 6.2 and (KDE3) Konqueror
> showed a high number of spontaneous crashes. 256MB Ram xosview shows a few
>...

You say Netscape and Konqueror crash significantely more often when
running 2.4.19-rc3 compared to running the same applications under 2.4.17?

Let's try to track it down:
- Do only Netscape/Konqueror crash or does X crash or does the whole
  computer crash?
- Is there any error message when the browsers crash, if yes which?
- Are there any suspicious messages in /var/log/syslog or
  /var/log/messages that might help in tracking this down?
- Is your 2.4.17 a plain ftp.kernel.org kernel or a kernel shipped by your
  distribution?
- Do you apply any patches to your kernels?
- Do you ever load non-free kernel modules like e.g. the one from NVidia?
  If yes, are your problems reproducible if no non-free modules were
  _ever_ loaded since the last reboot?
- Is there anything "special" or unusual with your machine (is it a
  laptop, root filesystem is on NFS or XFS, unusual hardware,...)?

> Kees

cu
Adrian

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Re: 2.4.19.rc3 vs 2.4.17

[kees]

Hi,

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, kees wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > I ran 2.4.19rc3 but my feeling is: Netscape 6.2 and (KDE3) Konqueror
> > showed a high number of spontaneous crashes. 256MB Ram xosview shows a few
> >...
>
> You say Netscape and Konqueror crash significantely more often when
> running 2.4.19-rc3 compared to running the same applications under 2.4.17?
>
> Let's try to track it down:
> - Do only Netscape/Konqueror crash or does X crash or does the whole
>   computer crash?

Only the apps, no X crash.

> - Is there any error message when the browsers crash, if yes which?
No messages
> - Are there any suspicious messages in /var/log/syslog or
>   /var/log/messages that might help in tracking this down?
No messages, taht was the fisrt thing I looked.
> - Is your 2.4.17 a plain ftp.kernel.org kernel or a kernel shipped by your
>   distribution?
Plain kernel from source tree
> - Do you apply any patches to your kernels?
Not this kernel(s)
> - Do you ever load non-free kernel modules like e.g. the one from NVidia?
No
>   If yes, are your problems reproducible if no non-free modules were
>   _ever_ loaded since the last reboot?
> - Is there anything "special" or unusual with your machine (is it a
>   laptop, root filesystem is on NFS or XFS, unusual hardware,...)?
SMP, MSI mobo
Nothing that I can think of. Viewing webpages just did crash the app. very
often , something that got away when switching back to 2.4.17
Java(?)
>
> > Kees
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
> --
>
> You only think this is a free country. Like the US the UK spends a lot of
> time explaining its a free country because its a police state.
> 								Alan Cox
>
>

Re: 2.4.19.rc3 vs 2.4.17

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 08:15:10PM +0200, kees wrote:
>  My pencam program didn't download pictures under
> 2.4.19rc3 and it does under 2.4.17.

This is probably because you now have a USB kernel driver binding to
your pencam device (stv680).  Either unload it and then run your
userspace program, or don't build that driver at all.

thanks,

greg k-h