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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:29, Florian Philipp |
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<lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: |
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> Iain Buchanan schrieb: |
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>> |
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>> R C Mitchell wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I |
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>>> decided |
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>>> to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation |
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>> ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for anything? Good to see you're trying a |
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>> real distribution :) </flame> |
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>> Typically now you'd prove me wrong and say how you've been using |
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>> <dieHardLinux> for years... anyhoo welcome! |
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>>> [snip excellent problem report] |
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>>> I'm reluctant to believe that this is down to an arbitrary hardware |
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>>> fault, |
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>>> since everything else works fine. It does seem to have something to do |
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>>> with |
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>>> emerging gentoo-sources. |
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>> hm, this screams hardware fault all over - I haven't seen one issue like |
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>> this come to anything else. Usually it's the RAM. Can you humour me and |
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>> try a stick from another machine, or at least reseat it? |
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> Iain's diagnosis seems about right. I would start with a nice 2h memtest86+ |
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> test followed with a 1h cpuburn test. |
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I believe you mean 2d memtest86+ unless computer has DDR9-99999 RAM |
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where 100 (full) cycles could be completed in under 2 hours. |
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Also, do cpuburn for a day or more - bad cooling could take hours to |
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mnifest themselves. |
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Andrey Vul |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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A: Top-posting. |
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Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? |
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Woody Allen - "I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. |
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Not wounded. Dead." |
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