slackware system keep rebooting

I've installed the new Slackware 9.0 on a system and I got stuck. Everyting installed fine but it reboots in the middle of my work. I looked in /var/log/messages and I don't see anyting to give me a clue. It reboots at random times (after 20 sec, 1 min ... but I can't work more than 2 min's ant it's rebooting again- the percentage of occurence seems to be after loading the hotplug modules ..). I just use text mode. The system also have an XP partition which has no problem. I also previously installed RedHat 9.0 with no such pblems (the only issue was that redhat runs very very slow...), so it's not about hardware ...

Thanks a lot,

Best regards

look in your cron jobs

Thanks for your input Jonas !

I've commented out all cron jobs, but unfortunately the system keeps rebooting ...

I installed the same distro on a nearby computer in the same configuration and got no problem...

Regards

Have you try not to load the hotplug module?

Have you recompiled your kernel or use the default one?

Reinstalled the system without hotplug ... same results..
I can't recompile my kernel, because:
1. The rebooting thing... don't gave me time to do it -
2. I have kernel compile experience only with redhat and gentoo distros. I don't know where to find the slackware kernel sources on the / to do a "menuconfig".

It seems like even the network card isn't working ..
it complains about can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/modules.dep
I found on my system only /lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.dep
Tried to fool it with a link: ln -s /lib/modules/2.4.20 /lib/modules/2.4.20-8 -- :-)
Now it says: kernel module version mismatch : 2.4.20versus 2.4.20-8 . Mmm. Want to recompile my 8139too ethernet card but I have to download a 8139too.c source from the net.
Same thing happened with my i810-audio module. How can this happened ?
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Tried the same install on a nearby station with same net,audio card and get the same kernel mismatch problem on 8139too,i810-audio modules!!

Do you have the same problems with Slackware 9.0 distro ? Bcause it seems like gentoo install is a piece of cake comparing to this one.

Thanks riv , it seems that recompiling is the only solution ...

Any hints about getting the source and recompiling ?

Use your rh kernel to boot slack. If that's the problem I guess it should disapear instantly. Or compile from another machine (copy .config if you don't wan't to reconfigure everything) and copy the kernel and bootmap and stuff (that's only for lilo I think, not sure).

You could try disabling stuff in the bios too (acpi or apm mainly).

Thanks riv, it works with another kernel !
But finally, i got tired about messing around with Slackware and did a fresh install with Debian and got no problem, everything works fine now.

You could always try Open or Free BSD

<<You could always try Open or Free BSD >>

Yes, I would but they want to switch in a couple of months from mysql to Oracle.....