On Monday 24 December 2012 08:37:50 AM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 23/12/12 23:00, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 23/12/12 21:23, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >>>> A few weeks ago I had a scare when a reboot paniced the kernel with a >>>> complaint that it could not find the root device (/dev/sde), and >>>> further reboots couldn't even see the USB keyboard. Leavng the >>>> system powered off overnight "fixed" the problem and the system has >>>> been working fine ever since. >>> >>> Do a memtest first. emerge sys-apps/memtest86+ and then add an entry >>> for it in Grub: >>> >>> title=Memtest86+ >>> root (hd0,0) # <- adapt this to your partition >>> kernel /boot/memtest86plus/memtest.bin >>> >>> Then boot that entry and see if you get any errors in the first 5 >>> minutes or so. >> >> Starting the emerge etc. But why would this be a memory problem when >> it is so clearly 3.6 vs 3.7? > > It's simply an easy check to do and can rule RAM failure out early on. > When RAM dies, various seemingly unrelated issues can pop up. > > But since your RAM seems clean, it's not the issue. > >
On an interesting note, I'm on 3.7.1 pf-kernel and uptime is more than 11 hours. No such issue. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
