Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I attributed the crashes to my non-standard setup - fvwm2 XWindows > Manager > and Gnome Session Manager. > > So I flagged the problem with the "fvwm user group". > > And was advised - "it sounds like a faulty HD". Indeed. I still stand-by tha

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-27 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 06:57:56 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > Felix Karpfen wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:58:44 -0500, Marty wrote >> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): >> >> Regrettably, I had the same crash experience twice in the past few >> weeks. >> >> Never before that in 10 ye

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Felix Karpfen wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:58:44 -0500, Marty wrote (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: It sounds like you may have a bad memory module. I will run some more tests and report back if I find a hardware problem. Regrettably, I had the same crash experience

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-26 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:58:44 -0500, Marty wrote (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> It sounds like you may have a bad memory module. >> > > I will run some more tests and report back if I find a hardware problem. Regrettably, I had the same crash experience twice in the pas

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:56:48AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Nov 23 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > The moral of the story is that hardware can go bad all of a sudden > > with no warning. > > Yet another moral of the story: be paranoid and keep your backups. I > don't leave home when go

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 23 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > The moral of the story is that hardware can go bad all of a sudden > with no warning. Yet another moral of the story: be paranoid and keep your backups. I don't leave home when going to work without backing up my system with mondo. Regards, Rogério Bri

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Marty
Following up, after some research I found this c.o.l.m. thread may describe the same problem: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/browse_frm/thread/826d6ad5a33fc7a7/460a72cb19108f31?tvc=1&q=2005+debian+segfault+OR+segfaults+OR+%22segmentation+fault%22+wine+OR+fdmount+OR+mount&hl=en#

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:58:44PM -0500, Marty wrote: > > I suspected that too, so I ran my own stress tests overnight without > discovering a hardware problem. My tests have always found memory problems > in the past, although sometimes they require a longer testing period. > In addition, this

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Marty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: It sounds like you may have a bad memory module. Go grab a Knoppix CD or DVD and boot it with the memtest or memtest86 command. You can check the cheat codes with F2 or F3 to see which it is exactly. Then let the box run for at least 12 hours on all the tests. Depend

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:30:52PM -0500, Marty wrote: > I think this is the first time I have gotten segmentation faults using > Debian stable, on stable hardware. I got them while, or after, reading > several > 1.44M floppy disks, mounted using mount or fdmount. > > Before the segfaults, I may