PPC kernel hang

Not eating for about 45 hours was fun. Even while at the karaoke place last night, it was really hard not to eat, but I guess that means if pledged, I can do it. General happiness.

Fedora’s kernel-2.6.5-1.358 (on PowerPC) exhibits the same behaviour as a mainline 2.6.6 – it oopses when running ifconfig eth0 mtu 1300. That aside, GNOME 2.6 got hosed as well! Hosing GNOME 2.4 was relatively easy (like if the laptop ran out of power), but I thought 2.6 was rock solid – seems Nautilus is refusing to come back up, the bonobo-activation-server is all gone awry, and the panel is dying. Different users, etc… makes no difference.

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  • Konstantin Ryabitsev
    Make sure your clock isn't saying 1901. That happened to me several times when my tibook went into a weird state. Not at all obvious, but running rdate -s seems to have fixed bonobo/gconf/oaf.
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