Re: Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream" -- now completely stuck

2014-02-20 Thread bc98kinney
Sorry for the top post, but the mailer on this cell phone blows.  Thanks for reaching out Ed, but I'm afraid this machine is doomed. It won't even run puppy Linux reliably from a flash drive. I don't trust it with my data, which I hope stays intact.  Sent from my Galaxy SIII  Original

RE: Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream" -- now completely stuck

2014-02-20 Thread bc98kinney
Another clue:  I copied a binary file from the system drive to another, and on each drive to a local subfolder. cmp is reporting differences in all of them. What the hell is going on?  Is this thing crazy or possessed? No one wants to take a swing at this one? I'm totally in limbo--I cannot

RE: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-20 Thread bc98kinney
Lockups can come from bad memory, so I would recommend you run memtest86 before anything else. Sometimes you have to let it go for a couple days before it finds anything.  A non destructive drive test like DFT wouldn't be a bad idea either.  Sent from my Galaxy SIII  Original message