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On 12 Feb, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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>> > Hi, Gentoo, |
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>> > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. |
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>> > The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging |
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>> > the xfce window manager. I "solved" this by emerging Openbox |
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>> > instead. |
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>> > Then I got another compiler segfault whilst emerging firefox (yes, I |
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>> > know there's a binary for this). |
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>> everything you mention below is indicative of failing hardware, |
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>> especially RAM closely followed by PSU. |
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>> Swap them out with known good items and test thoroughly *before* doing |
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>> anything else. |
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> I hope you're not right here. ;-) The hardware is spanking brand new; |
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> so new, in fact, that it's still gleaming. |
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> Are there any handy utility programs around to test RAM exhaustively? |
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I have made good experience with sys-apps/memtester. If you have not |
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more than 4 Gb RAM, you can use the SystemRescueCD. |
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Otherwise the GRML64 RescueCD has a true 64 bit version of memtester. |
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I have made the experience that memtester finds errors more quickly than |
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memtest86+ . |
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Helmut. |
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Helmut Jarausch |
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Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik |
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RWTH - Aachen University |
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D 52056 Aachen, Germany |
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