On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM richard emberson <emberson.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Back on 4/20 I tested the top 6.5 Gbs of the 8 Gbs on the system using > /bin/memtester > and that passed. > Not knowing if my system would even come up if I tried to reboot, I > decided to wait > until I had to reboot. I saw post stating that be easiest way to fix a > failed upgrade > is to re-install - I'd like to avoid that right now. > The current system (12 years old) is backed up and > I plan to build a new desktop server in a couple of weeks so I would wait > to reboot and > test all the RAM. > Power supplies (including motherboard components that manage low-voltage supplies to CPU and other chips) degrade with age. Random crashes can result. Hope the Trump tariffs don't make it hard to source parts for a new build. > Well, earlier today the system froze, so during reboot I ran memtest86 on > all the memory. > It all passed. So, it might be something else that caused the upgrade to > fail. > No zram errors since reboot. > > Richard > > On 20/04/25 15:05, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 4/20/25 2:23 PM, richard emberson wrote: > >> What should I be looking for? > >> A couple of hours before I started the upgrade, I can see that 3 > alacritty windows I had open in workspace 3 > >> crashed. The Xterms I was using in workspace 1 for the upgrade were > still up and running. > >> And there was a zram error: > > > > That looks really bad. I suggest you do a RAM test. > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > -- George N. White III
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