Greetings.  One of the profs here has a dual-processor (Intel Pentium D 
CPU 3.20GHz) Dell workstation.  The prof was complaining about browser 
instability when he  was using SL 4.1.  I didn't see any problems when I 
used his system for browsing, but I figured that it couldn't hurt to 
upgrade to SL 4.4.  We proceeded to do the upgrade "in place", according 
to the "For those a little more cautious" recipe at:

     https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.4x

The professor now reports that browsing is fine, but that the system 
(i.e., not just the browser) is crashing frequently, as indeed it does 
seem to be.  See the appended log.

We've looked at the computer's vital signs, examined various log files, 
etc., and we don't see anything obviously wrong.

We're continuing to monitor the system, but I wonder if by some chance 
anybody out there has seen similar behavior.  Thanks.

					- Mike

# last | grep reboot
reboot   system boot  2.6.9-42.0.3.ELs Tue Oct 24 10:28  (1+03:27)
reboot   system boot  2.6.9-42.0.3.ELs Mon Oct 23 10:03  (2+03:52)
reboot   system boot  2.6.9-42.0.3.ELs Sat Oct 21 13:28  (4+00:27)
reboot   system boot  2.6.9-42.0.3.ELs Fri Oct 20 14:21  (4+23:34)
reboot   system boot  2.6.9-11.ELsmp   Wed Oct 18 16:57  (1+21:23)


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Dept. of Physics          530.752.4966
University of California  530.752.4717 FAX
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