[olug] Intriguing random hangs!

[kaygee]

Well,
I'm running a continuous kernel compile loop right now to see if I can get
it to hang under Suse, but so far it's been stable for the past couple of
hours.  The hangs were so random I immediately thought heat issues, but
now I'm not so sure.

I'm pretty positive I didn't unseat anything (only one ethernet card in
the box), but I'm also suspicious of my motherboard although I think it
strange that it's steady decline would coincide with new memory. Thanks.

Keith
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Choose usefulness. Choose Linux.

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Jon wrote:

> 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
> > ----------
> > There's ease of use and then there's ease of usefulness.
> > Choose usefulness. Choose Linux.
> > 
> > 
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