{"id":7364,"date":"2016-11-22T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7364"},"modified":"2016-11-22T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:57:54","slug":"unstable-linux-kernel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/11\/unstable-linux-kernel\/","title":{"rendered":"Unstable linux kernel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fedora-penguin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fedora-penguin.png\" alt=\"fedora-penguin\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fedora-penguin.png 256w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fedora-penguin-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>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&#8217;s getting to be quite irritating to say the least.<br \/>\nEach 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&#8230; and it isn&#8217;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.<br \/>\nToday 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.<\/p>\n<p>A Little Later&#8230;<br \/>\nThe first upgrade from Linux Fedora 24 to 25 has completed, took less than an hour and is successful!<\/p>\n<p>* linux fedora 25 upgrade on<br \/>\n[root@ ~]# df -h<br \/>\nFilesystem                     Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br \/>\n\/dev\/sda3                      100G  6.0G   94G   6% \/<br \/>\n\/dev\/sda1                      477M  154M  294M  35% \/boot<\/p>\n<p>dnf update<br \/>\ndnf system-upgrade download &#8211;releasever 25<br \/>\nNo such command: system-upgrade. Please use \/usr\/bin\/dnf &#8211;help<br \/>\nIt could be a DNF plugin command, try: &#8220;dnf install &#8216;dnf-command(system-upgrade)'&#8221;<br \/>\n[root@lyta ~]# dnf install &#8216;dnf-command(system-upgrade)&#8217;<br \/>\nLast metadata expiration check: 0:00:17 ago on Tue Nov 22 13:14:38 2016.<br \/>\nDependencies resolved.<br \/>\n================================================================================<br \/>\n Package                              Arch      Version         Repository Size<br \/>\n================================================================================<br \/>\nInstalling:<br \/>\n dnf-plugin-system-upgrade            noarch    0.7.1-2.fc24    fedora     49 k<br \/>\n python3-dnf-plugin-system-upgrade    noarch    0.7.1-2.fc24    fedora     31 k<br \/>\nTransaction Summary<br \/>\n================================================================================<br \/>\nInstall  2 Packages<br \/>\nTotal download size: 80 k<br \/>\nInstalled size: 173 k<br \/>\ndnf system-upgrade download &#8211;releasever 25<br \/>\nTransaction Summary<br \/>\n================================================================================<br \/>\nInstall     20 Packages<br \/>\nUpgrade    441 Packages<br \/>\nRemove       3 Packages<br \/>\nDowngrade    4 Packages<br \/>\nTotal download size: 302 M<br \/>\ndnf system-upgrade reboot  at 14:17<br \/>\ncompleted by 14:47  Linux version 4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64  OK<br \/>\n[ ~]$ df -h<br \/>\nFilesystem                     Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br \/>\n\/dev\/sda3                      100G  6.1G   94G   7% \/<br \/>\n\/dev\/sda1                      477M  153M  295M  35% \/boot<br \/>\nOK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7367,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions\/7367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}