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On Wednesday 04 October 2006 18:24, Mick wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 04 October 2006 21:01, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: |
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> > To eliminate KDE problem I tried to run fluxbox with Firefox && |
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> > xterm - same results - hard freeze. |
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> > |
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> > Did anybody see something similar or at least some educated |
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> > guesses are welcome. |
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> Last time I experienced something like this was on a desktop which |
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> had incompatible memory modules fitted. Trial and error resulted |
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> in me removing all but one module and the crashes miraculously |
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> stopped! Knoppix alone would not cause any crashes whatsoever, but |
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> as soon as updatedb and an emerge were to take place |
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> simultaneously, the system would crash. In particular, it would |
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> usually crash when the memory of the modules was about to be |
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> exhausted and the system was going to start writing on the swap |
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> partition. It wouldn't happen every single time, but towards the |
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> end it was happening every time I booted the darn thing up. |
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thanks for sharing. One question I have - did you run memtest86 or |
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something similar at the time? The reason I'm asking - I ran |
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memtest86 on this machine and it showed nothing. I'm not entirely |
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sure how much I can trust memtest. |
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