I am running FC6 and have been since it was first released. The last couple of kernel updates appear to cause my machine to randomly crash (spontaneous reboots). Is it just me or are other people having problems right now? The version I installed yesterday is FC 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6xen. I have Xen DISABLED on my system, but that is the kernel that is loaded. When I logged in this morning, the system ran for about 3 minutes - I was bringing up Firefox - had 4 tabs open and was bringing up a Netcool monitoring window when the system rebooted. This has happened several times (doing different things). I rebooted with the previous kernel (2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6xen) and it runs just fine. The hardware is a Dell Precision 380 - I don't know exactly what's inside it - my office purchased it here at work...

There was at least one other kernel version that did the same thing a couple of weeks ago - don't remember the version number. Anyone else having this kind of problem? Any suggestions on how to pin down the problem or get it fixed?

thanks,

nbc

Try the non xen built kernel then:

yum install kernel-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6

yum uninstall kernel-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6xen

And BTW, to know what is in the Dell Precision 380 system type:lspci -v

Thanks - I don't know why yum was installing the xen kernel - and I just assumed that was the version I was supposed to be using. I have installed the non-xen version, as suggested, and it has been running for about 20 minutes without any problem - much longer than the previous versions mananaged. For now, I'll assume the problem is solved - thanks for the suggestion...

nbc

If you selected the "Virtualization" package group at install time you get the Xen kernel and utilities.

FC6 on Dell Dimension E520
using kernel(-xen)-2.6.20-1.2962


Just want to confirm that replacing the XEN kernel with the normal one worked for me too. I also had those random crashes as Nbcohen described them. Additionally, the kernel could not power off my box after shutdown. This all works now.

Thanks Lenard!