Re: RedHat 9 on a Sony Vaio PCG-FX170

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That sounds like hardware problems.  It is extremely unlikely that
hardware this old would not be supported to the point that the
filesystem is unreliable.  I would run memory and disk diagnostics on
that machine.

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 16:25, m.canada wrote:
> Hello to all.
> =20
> Anyone running Redhat (any version) on a Sony PCG-FX170? I have
> successfully loaded Redhat 9, but have had some problems after a
> while. My system has "hosed" itself at least 6 times.
> =20
> I have installed RH9, then installed all of the updates, including the
> latest kernel 20-20.9. After running for a few hours, doing various
> things such as mozilla browsing, evolution email, gftp, as well as
> using the sourceforge pptp for vpn, I decide to shutdown and reboot.
> When the system comes back up, my root filesystem is corrupted and all
> kinds of fsck errors are displayed. I get to the login prompt, but X
> will not start. Looking in the /var/log directory it can't find the
> driver for 'mouse'. Also errors reported about fonts missing.
> =20
> Has anyone had a problem similar to this?
> Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
> =20
> Thanks!
> Mark
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    Lawrence MacIntyre     865.574.8696     [email protected]
               Oak Ridge National Laboratory
High Performance Information Infrastructure Technology Group

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