Re: [DNG] Is it dead yet?

2021-10-26 Thread Steve Litt
Hendrik Boom via Dng said on Tue, 26 Oct 2021 23:15:15 -0400 >Chimaera didn't help, though the symptoms changed. >I booted from the chimaera live desktop, and it started looking >hopeful, but before much was running it had a kernel panic -- attempt >to kill init. Yes, I checked the checksum on the

Re: [DNG] Is it dead yet?

2021-10-26 Thread spiralofhope
On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 23:15:15 -0400 Hendrik Boom via Dng wrote: > I'll have to replace the RAM, I guess.  Or find out what memory bus > is failing. I know this sounds odd, but I had memory errors galore which were solved by a new power supply. Apparently a jackass flipping breakers off and on qu

Re: [DNG] Is it dead yet?

2021-10-26 Thread Hendrik Boom via Dng
Chimaera didn't help, though the symptoms changed. I booted from the chimaera live desktop, and it started looking hopeful, but before much was running it had a kernel panic -- attempt to kill init. Yes, I checked the checksum on the download. And when I used chimaera to boot another computer (a Pu

[DNG] Chimaera install: only low resolution video

2021-10-26 Thread Haines Brown
I just installed Chimera RC on a Gigabyte Z590 machine (incidentally it looks like I could autoconfigure wireless with providing firmware). When I installed xorg and fluxobox, the display was low resolution. Apparently it is a low resolution default. lxrandr offers no other accessible resolutio

Re: [DNG] Is it dead yet?

2021-10-26 Thread tempforever
Download links are available on the devuan download page https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan choose a mirror (for example, mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan/) then navigate to the devuan_chimaera/ directory where you will hopefully find a desktop-live/ directory which should contain devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_[

Re: [DNG] Is it dead yet?

2021-10-26 Thread Hendrik Boom via Dng
Then I'd have to figure out how to get a new kernel into it while it crashes during bootup, which it now does quite consistently. If I had made recent changes (such as upgrades) I'd consider a kernel problem more likely. But it has been running for months with only occasional problems, and now I g

Re: [DNG] Is it dead yet?

2021-10-26 Thread Boian Bonev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Hendrik, It is clearly saying that is a soft lockup, if it was a hardware problem it would say hard lockup isn't it? That problem really does not indicate a hardware problem, most probably a bug in the kernel; it can also show when a kernel dri

Re: [DNG] Is it dead yet?

2021-10-26 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 26-10-2021 02:28, Hendrik Boom via Dng wrote: I think I may have a clue to the mysterious stoppages of my server. I ssh'd into it today and got the following.  It is time to give up on this machine and replace it? -- hendrik hendrik@april:~$ su - Password: april:~# ps | grep lighttpd ^C^C