once again 5.2 RC and watchdog timeout

[Kay Lehmann]

Peter Ulrich Kruppa schrieb:
> 
> When I throw in my 0.02 EUR, please bear in mind I am no kind of
> OS specialist, but I have to fight a lot with deficient hardware
> in our school's network. So here my experiences:
> 1) Realteks are ok with workstations, but are no good with
>    servers.  When requests from different machines arrive they
>    frequently give in. I never had any problems with Realteks on
>    my private computer at home (running -CURRENT).

It is a workstation.

> 2) Are you sure there are no IP conflicts in your network? If you
>    are using DHCP you should check it's address range.

Yes I am sure. there are just 3-4 machines in my home-network (no dhcp) 
so this can't be the problem.

> 3) Did you check for defect cables? If a NIC can only be run with
>    10 Mbit this might be the reason.

Yes I did check the cables.

> 4) Do you have any routers? Check them too (a defect DSL router
>    might cause all kinds of troubles, though internet seems to
>    work).

I am pretty sure that the router is ok and internet does work, but not 
with 5.2. Currently I am running 4-stable (on the same machine). The 
problems occured after upgrading from 5.1 to 5.2.
> 
> Just trying to give some more hints:
> 
> Uli.
> 
> 
Thanks for your suggestions they are all very welcome.
Greetings,
Kay