🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello!
I've installed Linux RedHat 4.1 distributions on 4 pc, all identically
configured:
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Ppro 200Mzh, 256K cache, main board ???
128Mb ram
controller SCSI adapted AHA2940U
2 quantum SCSI fireball 2.1G each
PCI ne2000 comp. net card.
Matrox Millenium 4Mb video card.
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All the PCs share their /home dir with the other, throughout NFS.
All the PCs are using shadow password, one acting as a server, the other

as client.

No problem at all... but...
when the "cluster" (all the four machine...) went down (power loss), a
lot of trouble came out.
The last time, three of them didn't complete the boot procedure,
stopping when rc.sysinit pass the control to the /etc/rc.d/rc or to the
bash (when starting in single user mode). Note that the server indeed
booted up correctly!

After a day of trying and retrying, I've discovered that the problem was

in KERNELD:
after running kerneld, I can't run anymore any bash, ps, and even a 'ls
-l' will stop working (note that "ls"  will work!).

I've upgraded to RedHat 4.2, but the problem is there too!

So I compiled (on the only machine working) a kernel without the modules

support, uninstalled the support for modules and the old kernel. Now
all work fine, but I'm not sure that this is the last solution.

Anyone have some ideas about this (very) strange behavior of this
comps.
I suspect an hardware problem (bios may be). I'm on the right way?

Sorry for my bad english... :-)

Ciao,                /\/\/\rco
                       mellia@fagiolo.polito.it

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