On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Chris Purves" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM >> Subject: systems hangs every few days >> >> After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days >> where the system becomes completely unresponsive and I need do a >> cold boot. >> > That sounds a lot like bad RAM. Run MEMTEST86 on it. I'm not sure if the > debian install cds contain that, but Knoppix usually has that as a boot > option. The full test could take more than a day. If you're lucky, it'll > find an error in the first 10 minutes.
I ran memtest86+ for three hours without finding any errors. I may try again for longer at a later time, but for now I'm going to rule out bad RAM. -- Chris Purves Visit my blog: http://chris.northfolk.ca "It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there." - Pierre Trudeau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
