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Thank you, Walt. |
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I live on a tropical island. I've been going through about all the |
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suggestions people have made and all the ideas I can think of. |
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Changed NICs. Recompiled kernel with better configuration. |
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Uptime 1:39 |
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An improvement from earlier today. |
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I've edited /etc/fstab. But I'll leave grub alone until I'm sure what to do. |
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Thank you again. |
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Alan |
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On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:52 AM, walt<w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 07/10/2009 05:16 PM, lngndvs@×××××.com wrote: |
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>> I recently reported that I am suffering random reboots. I have now |
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>> discovered an inconsistency in the reporting of the mount point of the |
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>> root directory of my Gentoo install... |
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> No, the two are not related. In my experience, anything that goes wrong |
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> at random times is related to hardware flakiness -- usually because some |
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> piece of the hardware is running too hot. |
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> I happen to live in a very hot, dry, dusty place. I see random flakiness |
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> just about every summer, which I fix by blowing the thick layer of dust |
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> off of the CPU heatsink and RAM chips and the power supply with a can of |
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> compressed gas. Of course, I also check that all of the fans in the case |
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> are still working. |
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> Do you know about memtest86? If you have random nastiness you should run |
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> memtest86 at least overnight to see if your RAM is becoming senile ;o) |
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> I have suggestions about grub also, but, to be coherent about them I need |
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> to be much more awake than I am now. I'll check back tomorrow. |
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