hello friends,
i recently did a fresh install of potato and immediately
dist-upgraded to woody.. now, after playing around with it for a few
days and installing the stuff i wanted i have this strange windows like
problem: after i've been working on the computer (or after it has just
been sitting around idle, even) some program might or might not give me
a segfault and from then on i can't do anything anymore.. well, almost,
at least, some apps might or might not work, i can't log on and when i
get so far as to give the halt command init often says: switching to
runlevel 0, sending the term signal, sending the kill signal, no more
processes left in this runlevel and then nothing happens.. or i get Id
"[number]" respawning too fast, disabled for five minutes.. gosh, i have
absolutely no idea what this is all about, i upgraded to kernel
2.4.8-586 but iirc the strange behaviour started before that.. i
installed a 3com 905c tx m recently (it has nothing to do so far, no
network as of yet) but it happens even when i delete the driver and the
card is not seen by the system..
what i don't understand is why is almost any app segfaulting on me? i'm
trying hard to get rid of windows and now my gnu/linux crashes in the
same haphazard manner as the redmond shit.. is this all about init, is
something perhaps hosed there? i would be really grateful for any help
so that we could at least file a bug.. right now this would be against
woody as a whole, i fear.. :-/
here's the hardware config:
pII 350 on an intel board (440bx chipset)
nVidia riva 128 graphics (btw: x4 doesn't work in 800x600 anymore on
that one), es1371 soundchip (all on board)
wd ac26400b harddrive, teac 532ea cdrom
as mentioned above 3com 905c nic
all crappy stuff, i know, but it works and as a student i don't have the
dough to get a new box every two years.. though it's well about time..
:-(
again, thanks for any help offered, i'm at a total loss here..
frank.
