Unstable linux kernel
For about a month now, ever since we started using the linux fedora 24 kernel series 4.8.x, we have been having intermittent crashes and lockups of four of our linux servers. It’s getting to be quite irritating to say the least.
Each time onsite, we reboot back into a 4.7.x and it works for awhile ok.. then we get another 4.8.x update and want to try it out to see if the problem is gone… and it isn’t. Over the weekend we were running the 4.8.7 kernel and it too had problems.. some services would stop running, and in one instance a machine lost its static ip address.
Today we are back to running 4.7.7 on some of them, and are waiting to try out 4.8.8.. or better yet, a whole system upgrade to fedora 25, due out later today.
A Little Later…
The first upgrade from Linux Fedora 24 to 25 has completed, took less than an hour and is successful!
* linux fedora 25 upgrade on
[root@ ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 100G 6.0G 94G 6% /
/dev/sda1 477M 154M 294M 35% /boot
dnf update
dnf system-upgrade download –releasever 25
No such command: system-upgrade. Please use /usr/bin/dnf –help
It could be a DNF plugin command, try: “dnf install ‘dnf-command(system-upgrade)'”
[root@lyta ~]# dnf install ‘dnf-command(system-upgrade)’
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:17 ago on Tue Nov 22 13:14:38 2016.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
dnf-plugin-system-upgrade noarch 0.7.1-2.fc24 fedora 49 k
python3-dnf-plugin-system-upgrade noarch 0.7.1-2.fc24 fedora 31 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 2 Packages
Total download size: 80 k
Installed size: 173 k
dnf system-upgrade download –releasever 25
Transaction Summary
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Install 20 Packages
Upgrade 441 Packages
Remove 3 Packages
Downgrade 4 Packages
Total download size: 302 M
dnf system-upgrade reboot at 14:17
completed by 14:47 Linux version 4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64 OK
[ ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 100G 6.1G 94G 7% /
/dev/sda1 477M 153M 295M 35% /boot
OK