Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Ben! Am 06.03.2005 um 00:19 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: At the moment we run a memtester on a G4/400 for 5 days now and no problems found -- but my customer has big problems with this computer :-( What kind of problems ? Calm down ;-) - this bug is not Linux related - this computer has

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> At the moment we run a memtester on a G4/400 for 5 days now and no > problems found -- but my customer has big problems with this computer > :-( What kind of problems ? Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Sebastien! Am 04.03.2005 um 14:13 schrieb Sebastien NOEL: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:11:37 +0100 , steinm wrote: In my case it took less than 10 min for the apple hardware test to find the error. The memory test simply failed and it came up with a so called code: 2MEM/1/4:DIMM1/J7 If it hadn't fou

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-04 Thread Sebastien NOEL
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:11:37 +0100 , steinm wrote: > In my case it took less than 10 min for the apple hardware test > to find the error. The memory test simply failed and it came up > with a so called code: 2MEM/1/4:DIMM1/J7 > If it hadn't found the problem, I would have been very clueless. > You

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-04 Thread steinm
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:42:07PM +0100, Sebastien NOEL wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:13:31 +0100 , steinm wrote: > > > Finally got a change to stick in the apple hardware test cd > > and it revealed a problem with the extra 512MB memory bar. > > > > Without the extra memory it is slow but work

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-04 Thread Sebastien NOEL
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:13:31 +0100 , steinm wrote: > Finally got a change to stick in the apple hardware test cd > and it revealed a problem with the extra 512MB memory bar. > > Without the extra memory it is slow but works :-) > > Uwe > Hi, I have a question for you, just to be sure that i'

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 22:13 +0100, steinm wrote: > Finally got a change to stick in the apple hardware test cd > and it revealed a problem with the extra 512MB memory bar. > > Without the extra memory it is slow but works :-) Yes, I noticed that MacOS seem to be less sensitive to problems with ex

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-03 Thread steinm
Finally got a change to stick in the apple hardware test cd and it revealed a problem with the extra 512MB memory bar. Without the extra memory it is slow but works :-) Uwe On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:14:39PM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a serious problem with my ibook/G4. Si

Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-03 Thread Uwe Steinmann
Hi, I've got a serious problem with my ibook/G4. Since yesterday there are frequent kernel crashes. No chance to get the system up without a kernel crash. Booting in single user mode usually works, probably because of much less disk io. As soon as larger processes like postgresql or X11 are starte