[olug] Intriguing random hangs!

[Jon]

I would guess a hardware conflict.  Wow man that box sounds hosed.  Maybe you unseated a card putting the memory in?  Has this been a slow degredation?  I am very supiscious of your motherboard as well.

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:03:43PM -0600, kaygee wrote:
> All,
> It's been an interesting week for my desktop box.  It started going
> downhill when I added a stick of PC100 128M to my box running FreeBSD.
> Well, netscape started exiting on startup with bus errors which isn't
> unusual for netscape, but I also started getting freezes and hangs which
> had never happened before so I put my bus back to 66Mhz (it had been at
> 83) and went to more conservative memory timings.  Things kept going bad
> until FreeBSD would no longer find the kernel on boot so I decided to
> scrap it and install Debian again (after moving my mp3's to my 1G
> harddrive (/dev/hdb).  Anyway, before I did that I wanted to test the
> memory to see if it was defective so I ran memtest86 for about 20 hrs
> without a single error.  Satisfied, I started installing Debian (slink 2.1
> are the only disks I have), but the crashes continued.  I started to
> suspect the processor and wanted to do some round-robin kernel compiles to
> stress it and see if heat was an issue (it's never been before), but I
> couldn't even get to a point where I could compile the kernel (much less
> untar it) before things would hang (hard) and even the three-fingered
> salute wouldn't bring it back (a hang during a vigorous fsck is not a good
> thing :).  So, thinking these Debian disks might be flaky I installed an
> old Suse distro I had lying around which is why I can write this, but the
> kernel has already dumped core once this session although no hangs have
> occurred.
> 
> Anyone have any bright ideas to volunteer.  If not I'll be working from
> Suse console for a while until I get the box back on it's feet.  It's hard
> to find time to do this when I should be study Neuroscience.  Anyway,
> sorry for the long post but I needed to do some venting and get some other
> opinions, and I'm sure this beats hearing about Jason's DHCP problems. :)
> Ha, just kidding.
> 
> P.S. If someone would like to burn me a Potato CD I'd be grateful.  No
> hurry though as long as I don't have a solid machine to install it on.
> 
> Peace.
> 
> Keith
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> Choose usefulness. Choose Linux.
> 
> 
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