Bug#582487: FYI: A workaround

2011-12-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > At the moment, it seems to me that bug#582487 and > #582088 are different, and I humbly suggest > un-merging them. You didn't report bug#582487 in the first place! Yes, you tripped the same assertion that Thiemo did. In your case, it seems it was due to a hardware

Bug#582487: FYI: A workaround

2011-12-22 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Thank you for sharing your detailed thoughts. I may owe you an apology for being too terse in my bug report. It seems to me that it may be important to explain: 1.) I encountered a stack trace like the one in bug#582487 after adding RAM, and then pretty much every time I booted the c

Bug#582487: FYI: A workaround

2011-12-22 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Jonathan, Happy holidays. I checked out the bug#582088 saga that you mentioned. I happened to notice it has a different stack trace than bug 582487. If I asked you nicely, would you please elaborate on why you think they're the same bug? Thanks, Kingsley On 12/22/11 05:08, Jonathan Nieder

Processed: Re: Bug#582487: FYI: A workaround

2011-12-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 582487 - moreinfo Bug #582487 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: bad page state Removed tag(s) moreinfo. > merge 582088 582487 Bug#582088: [Eee PC 1000HG, fuse] symptoms of memory corruption Bug#582487: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: bad page s

Bug#582487: FYI: A workaround

2011-12-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 582487 - moreinfo merge 582088 582487 quit Hi Kingsley, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > For what it's worth, I seem to have found a way to > work around this bug. Having the same error message does not imply having the same bug. The bug you're responding to looks like another episode in th

Bug#582487: FYI: A workaround

2011-12-11 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
For what it's worth, I seem to have found a way to work around this bug. Here are the details. I have an MSI (Micro Star) MS-6712 (KT4V) motherboard. It was running version 2.6.32-35 of package linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 in squeeze. I wanted to upgrade its RAM from about half a gigabyte on two st