On 12/10/24 13:51, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/9/24 20:51, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/9/24 06:59, gene heskett wrote:
If your computer is crashing within a minute, consider printing this
e-mail.
A: It didn't last long enough to even get this msg.
Understood.
B: I dl'd the beta from the mozilla site, works differently but has not
crashed in about 36 hours now. It didn't crash if the debian supplied
version wasn't running so the dl was w/o excitement.
On the one hand, I am glad the computer is no longer crashing.
On the other hand, I expect that you will continue to use the computer
in the same way; and that you will not identify and fix root cause issues.
I assume the subject "restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze"
refers to your Asus PRIME Z370-A II desktop/ workstation/ storage
server computer (?).
Yes, its stable as long as the debian version of t-bird wasn't running,
start it and it locked the system up while fetching the initial imap
scan for new msgs. I didn't track how many times I tried, 10 or more I
guess.
If official Debian packages cause your system to crash, then your Debian
installation is broken. Given the complexity of your haystack, I expect
finding and fixing the needle(s) would be time prohibitive.
When I destabilize a system, my preferred solution is a backup,
re-image, and restore cycle. To make this solution possible, I have
invested myself in disaster preparedness. And, I must continue
investing effort on a regular basis to keep it viable.
When all I had was data backups, my best option was backup, wipe, fresh
install, and restore.
Things were truly scary before I had decent data backups.
If you rebuild the computer as a hypervisor host (using the NVMe PCIe
SSD) and a storage server (using the various SATA SSD's), you can do all
the experimentation you want inside virtual machines. If a VM blows up,
the base system keeps running and so do the other VM's. This removes
your current problem of "all of your eggs in one basket". Also, a good
hypervisor makes it easy to snapshot and revert VM's. This facilitates
disaster preparedness and disaster recovery for the VM's. You would
still need data backups; use the HDD's.
David
