On Thursday 5 September 2024 01:11:13 BST Dale wrote: > When I built this rig, I first booted the Gentoo Live boot image and > just played around a bit. Mostly to let the CPU grease settle in a > bit. Then I ran memtest through a whole test until it said it passed. > Only then did I start working on the install. The rig has ran without > issue until I noticed gkrellm temps were stuck. They wasn't updating as > temps change. So, I closed gkrellm but then it wouldn't open again. > Ran it in a console and saw the error about missing module or > something. Then I tried to figure out that problem which lead to seg > fault errors. Well, that lead to the thread and the discovery of a bad > memory stick. I check gkrellm often so it was most likely less than a > day. Could have been only hours. Knowing I check gkrellm often, it was > likely only a matter of a couple hours or so. The only reason it might > have went longer, the CPU was mostly idle. I watch more often when the > CPU is busy, updates etc.
Ah! It seems it died while in active service. :-) There's no way to protect against this kind of failure in real time, short of running a server spec. board with ECC RAM. An expensive proposition for a home PC.
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