it happend to me once, it was memory, you can donwload a boot disk with a mem tester (memtest86, as mentioned before) and see what it says
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:08:42PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > 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. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
