Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

[Thomas G. Willis]

The powersupply may be it then.

I don't know whether the logs would tell you that though.

I had freezing problems with my old box. I was only able to narrow it
down when I got to a point where I could reproduce the problem
reliably.

In my case the logs were no help, but encoding a file to mp3 would do
it. running it through gdb(i think) I saw that a segfault would always
happen in a system call related to alocating memory and then the
system would feeze right after that.

My ram was being reported as having errors in memtest but only in that
machine. I inferred it must be the controller. Which I read was
incorporated into the chip for that version of Athalon.

Long story short... screwed, buy new machine avoid HP pavillions  in
the future just to be safe.

I am by no means an expert but that's how I anrrowed things down.


On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes <fs.antunes@×××××.com> wrote:
> I've already run memtest86, no problem report.
>
> On 4/28/06, Thomas G. Willis <tom.willis@×××××.com> wrote:
> > And probably a portion of the remaining 1% have bad ram or a failing
> > memory controller.
> >
> > On 4/28/06, Jason Dodson <jasond@××××××××.com> wrote:
> > > 99% of people with this issue have a cheap, insufficient power supply.
> > >
> > > Fernando Antunes wrote:
> > > > Hi, my Pentium 4 box freeze suddenly sometimes. Reboot is a only solution.
> > > > I can try to figure out for a especific use or especific application
> > > > to associate, but no success.
> > > > I suspect this is a hardware problem or misconfigured driver.
> > > >
> > > > Where I find last kernel panic logs after reboot ?
> > > > What are the first steps to investigate this  ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any clue ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > BOX:
> > > > Pentium 4
> > > > RAM 512 RAM
> > > > gentoo 2.6-15-gentoo-r1 (olders have the sma problem)
> > > > xorg-x11 6.8.2-r6 (nv driver on a TNT2 Riva)
> > > >
> > >
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