[mythtv-users] 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 wierdness.. sporadic lockups and TCP/IP problems

[Justin Painter]

Once you get everything loaded its stable?  Wierd thing is the stock
FC3 kernel seems to work a little better for me but the nice prebuilt
packages for ivtv, nvidia, et al don't seem to be available.

On Apr 7, 2005 8:03 AM, Bart Kaptein <bartkaptein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Justin,
> 
> I am also setting up my mythsystem based on FC3. I have similar
> problems with ethernet. During booting, ethernet will not start, but
> when I type ifconfig eth0 after booting, eth0 starts without any
> problem. When I type network restart, the eth0 goes down without any
> problems, but does not come up again. ifconfig eth0 starts it up
> again...
> 
> I think this has something to do with the dyanically generated devices
> (udev) in FC3.
> 
> Bart.
> 
> On Apr 7, 2005 3:39 AM, Justin Painter <mudbiker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Upgraded to FC3 Monday from a rock solid FC2 install (what was I thinking!)
> >
> > I am running a vanilla fresh .17 FC3 install following Jarod's guide.
> > Hardware is a Shuttle mn31n nforce2 mobo with a XP Barton 2500, 512
> > meg memory, and 2 PVR250MCE's.
> >
> > I have a couple weird problems and was wondering if someone had any
> > idea what is going on....
> >
> > I am running the 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 kernel and my machine sporadically
> > hangs on boot (and sometimes boots up and works great!):
> >
> > Starting udev:
> >
> > Initializing hardware storage network audio <FREEZE> Now I have read
> > where this can be caused by not having the right kmdl's from atmrpms
> > etc, but I have the right ones
> >
> > Another thing, sometimes when it boots, and this is going to sound
> > crazy, my Ethernet connection won't respond until I do something on
> > the computer that requires TCP/IP, like ping my router.
> >
> > Now if someone emailed me saying the same thing, I would probably tell
> > them to reinstall, something must have got hosed, or you have a
> > hardware problem.  Funny thing is, I did reinstall from scratch a
> > second time, and it is still doing the exact same thing!
> >
> > Now when I get it booted, and get the ip stuff working right, it chugs
> > along just fine, as a matter of fact its been up for almost a full day
> > and has recorded quite a few shows and transcoded them up, all is
> > golden.  But if I reboot..
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