On Oct 17 2002, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> Heh. I spoke too soon.
Well, these things happen. ;-)
> I did get the base installed and I rebooted the system. It went
> through the initial setup and changed the root password, added
> another user, and asked if I wanted to run tasksel.
>
> Then it prompted to remove pcmcia-cs and died. Segfaults left and
> right.
Well, let the pcmcia-cs package there for a moment.
> I logged in and tried to install a package and got more and more
> segfaults.
Well, these random segfaults *do* smell like RAM problems.
There are even some comprehensive pages on the net where
people talk about all the ramifications of the problems.
I guess that one possible test you should take is trying to
compile a new kernel. It seems that gcc is able to exercise
the memory quite a bit and it usually reveals problems with
memory quite faster than other programs.
It's a pity that memtest86 works only for, well, x86s. Do you
have the possibility of taking the memory of this computer and
using it on a regular PC?
This way, you could stress-test your memory module all the
night with memtest86 and see if the problem is indeed the
memory. The better thing would be to run memtest86, if you
can, but if you can't, then trying to compile the kernel would
be a good test, I think.
*If* the memory works ok on the PC, then it might be an
indication of, perhaps, a problem with the memory slots on the
Mac (or, worse, with other parts -- and diagnosing that may
not be as simple).
> It's never easy :)
But sometimes it's fun. :-)
[]s, Roger...
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