Re: [Pan-users] Major Pan Trouble

[Daniel Rahn]

First of all: Maintaining PAN packages for SuSE Linux is my private
pleasure and so is this mail. Just to be sure :-)

On Sat, Dec 13, Alberto BARSELLA wrote:
> Since I assume you're not running pan as root, this is symptom of a
> kernel problem.  If I remember correctly, one approach used in the linux
> kernel is: if something fails and there's no way to recover reasonably,
> just reboot the machine.  I've seen this happen when accessing a NTFS
> partition in read-only mode: there was one file which would trigger a
> reboot when accessed.  A simple check is to try a different kernel
> version (and I mean from 2.4 to 2.6 or vice-versa, minor revisions
> may not fix the issue).

Well, I am already in contact with Paul.

> The suggestion about logging debug information is good, but it may be
> that it fails to get anything reasonable written to the disk before
> the system reboots.  I don't know if forcing synchronous updates of the
> root partition can help.  Does Suse use a vanilla kernel or it's a patched
> one?

The difference between the vanilla kernel and the kernel on a SuSE Linux
9 system is 60MB of patches.

Bye,

Daniel