We have just installed the 11.3 version of opensuse in a Dell Poweredge T610 with 8 Gb in RAM and two (2) Xeon Quadcore proccesors. Well, the first time the Opensuse resets the computer, after the installation (it was fine, w/o any problem) the system goes frezze showing a screen which reports a BUG ERROR in the Kernel code, specifically:
Kernel bug at /usr/package/BUILD/kernel-desktop-2.6.34/kernel/timer.c:643
invalid opcode: 0000 #1] PREEMPT SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/module/thermal_sys/sections/__ksymtab_strings
CPU 11
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After a “button off” reset the machine boots fine and we could finish the configuration of the applications that we needed. We tested the machine by two days and it didn’t show again the problem mentioned, and we believe it was a little bug in the installation, but today, the server halts again in the boot proces 3 (three) times before it runs again well.
We have repeated this installation in other computers, one in a 32 bit version and other in 64 bits version (like the Dell) and only in the last one has repeated the problem, I mean, we HAD NOT OBSERVED THE PROBLEM in the 32 bit installation.
Fortunelly, this new server is just a replacement for an old machine, that is runnig with the 10.3 version.
Somebody coudl help us to find a solution? perhaps, does we continue using the 10.3 instead of the 11.3 meanwhile it is depured?:’(
Thanks for your attention.
You said two processors. You installed the server edition from here software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 11.3. Didn’t you?