[SOLVED] Debian has become totally unusable on my amd64 system -- no stable kernel available

2014-02-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:54:32 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: > > I may have found the problem. This problem may be related to Debian bug > number 736892. As it turned out, Debian bug number 736892 was an unrelated problem. My real problem was faulty memory (RAM). Ben, I know that you already

Re: Debian has become totally unusable on my amd64 system -- no stable kernel available

2014-02-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 11:58:06 -0500 (EST), Ben Hutchings wrote: > > It's not clear to me whether you were previously running an i386 > installation on the same hardware. If so, this behaviour is very > surprising. No, I'm comparing to an i386 system on different hardware. > > If this is a new sy

Re: Debian has become totally unusable on my amd64 system -- no stable kernel available

2014-02-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 09:38 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > Gentlemen, > > Never have I seen such an unstable system. In fairness, this is my > first amd64 system. All previous systems I have used have been i386 > systems. But I cannot find any Debian Linux kernel that is stable on > my amd64 sy

Re: Debian has become totally unusable on my amd64 system -- no stable kernel available

2014-02-01 Thread Marko Randjelovic
I really don't see a solution, but probably it would be useful if you could post your motherboard model. Newest kernel from kernel.org is 3.2.13, doesn't look you could get something newer. Did you try Wheezy kernel 3.2, or Wheeze backports kernel 3.10? You could also try KFreeBSD and Hurd kernels

Debian has become totally unusable on my amd64 system -- no stable kernel available

2014-02-01 Thread Stephen Powell
Gentlemen, Never have I seen such an unstable system. In fairness, this is my first amd64 system. All previous systems I have used have been i386 systems. But I cannot find any Debian Linux kernel that is stable on my amd64 system. The best I can find is linux-image-3.11-2-amd64, version 3.11.