On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:50, Sam wrote: > I just installed Debian for the first time on my Power Mac 6500. > I put on a few packages, including the 2.4.28-powerpc woody kernel image. > But now the strangest things are happening. > Sometimes when I am in enlightenment it will just freeze up. Moving the > mouse and pressing keys does nothing. The transmit light on the ethernet > card flashes every so often, but pinging the machine from the other one > (two machine ethernet using crossover cable) does not work. > And other times I get an "Oops" message for no apparent reason. This > happens often during the shutdown process. > Upon occasion after I type my login and password into xdm, the little > "opening session for user storm" will appear on the xconsole, and then > one of two strange things will happen. Sometimes it will almost > instantly print the closing session for user storm message. Other times > it won't seem to do anything. The really strange part is that the "xdm" > processes owned by storm refuse to die, even with kill -9 from a root > login on tty1. Even with a "shutdown now" and then hitting control-D to > start things up again. > And, most recently, I started up, logged in, opened an Eterm, and tried > to use netcat. It died with an illegal instruction. Then I tried ssh. > Same. Neither seemed to do anything before printing "Illegal > Instruction". > What's going on? What can I do?
Sounds like either a kernel or a hardware problem. The fact that most other people don't seem to experience the same problems with the same kernel points towards the hardware I'm afraid - might be faulty RAM or something. Anything interesting in the kernel output? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
