> 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.
Sounds scary... I booted up into single user mode and ran memtest. It went through four passes without errors, then I got bored and killed it. It only tested just under 50MB though, even though I have 96MB... more on that to come. Is there any way I can have the kernel load in a different location so I can test the memory the kernel is currently in? (I am using BootX) Why can it only around 50MB? I'd think it could get more than that. > Anything interesting in the kernel output? Well I've never run anything unix-like on my own computer before, just used other people's, so it's all interesting ;) There were a few things I thought might be relevant or errors: Jun 14 21:14:36 Wakko kernel: Memory BAT mapping: BAT2=64Mb, BAT3=32Mb, residual : 0Mb [as I said, I have 96MB of memory, and it just happens to be a 64MB module and a 32MB module, I suppose that's what that means.] Jun 14 21:14:36 Wakko kernel: Linux version 2.4.18-powerpc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Mon Jun 9 01:31:09 UTC 2003 [that's the version of course] [...] Jun 14 21:14:36 Wakko kernel: Memory: 93704k available (1620k kernel code, 1044k data, 280k init, 0k highmem) [that doesn't add up to 96MB, does it?] [...] Jun 14 21:14:36 Wakko kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware Jun 14 21:14:36 Wakko kernel: PCI:00:10.0: Resource 0: f3000000-f307ffff (f=200) Jun 14 21:14:36 Wakko kernel: PCI:00:12.0: Resource 0: 81000000-81ffffff (f=200) Jun 14 21:14:36 Wakko kernel: PCI:00:0e.0: Resource 0: 00000400-0000047f (f=101) Jun 14 21:14:36 Wakko kernel: PCI:00:0e.0: Resource 1: 80800000-8080007f (f=200) Jun 14 21:14:36 Wakko kernel: PCI:00:12.0: Resource 1: 00000400-000004ff (f=101) Jun 14 21:14:36 Wakko kernel: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 0 0:12.0 Jun 14 21:14:36 Wakko kernel: PCI: parent is c02fa030: 00000000-007fffff (f=100 ) [that seemed odd, I'm not sure if it's a problem though] [...] Jun 14 21:14:36 Wakko kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes ; override with idebus=xx [I don't know if that's right, but if it was wrong I think I'd probably have found out pretty quick since my root is /dev/hda6]
