On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I had similar symptoms once. Segfaults and apparently corrupted disk > > files. It turned out to be a bad memory SIMM. Try running memtest86 for > > awhile (10 minutes to an hour or more; depends on how much memory you have > > and how fast the cpu is). > > > > After I replaced the memory, I reinstalled all packages "in-place" > > (declining any config files) to refresh any files that may have been bad. > > Made me feel better, at least. > > I had the same thought, though I'm not sure how an overheated CPU fan > could damage the memory. It seems more likely that the libraries Jim > mentions are corrupted, and the one program that works is somehow > "lucky". A memtest couldn't hurt, though.
My SIMM went "bad" after 10 months _without_ overheating anything. I would give the same advice even in the absense of the heating issue. Can't hurt! :-) ...RickM...
