Thank you for your advice: I retrograted to Potato and I still get the same problem: this should be a hardware problem, not a software problem.
Jerome Stephen Gran wrote: > > Thus spake Jerome BENOIT: > > > > > > Nick Jacobs wrote: > > > > > > Woody is obviously not ready for release. If you have > > > urgent serious work to do, you should be using Potato. > > > > I am ready to believe you and to retrograde to Potato, > > but at the Debian official site we can read > > "This distribution [Woody] is currently in the ``testing'' phase, > > but stabilizing and close to being ``frozen''." > > ( http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/ ). > > > > What does "close" mean here ? > > > > > > > > My fresh Debian/Woody (two processor) computer > > > > experiences freezing > > > > when I want to launch jobs as building a new kernel, > > > > computing funny stuff with Maple 7,... > > > > To restart I have to to reset. > > > > > > > > To quickly solve it, I have tried different kernel > > > > (2.2.19;2.4.14,2.4.16), > > > > but it still freezes. > > > > And I urgently need it to make huge computations. > > > > > > > > Any idea ? > > > > Is it Woody really on the edge to be frozen ? > > > > How can we figure out the problem ? > Woody has 'frozen' which means that no new packages are being accepted > into the distribution, but bugfixes and some ironing out has to be > done before release (I think - somebody correct me if I'm wrong, > please). To go back to your original problem, Woody should not be > locking your box up if it's set up decently. Assuming that you don't > have something really strange going on with the software, and this > occurs with both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, I would say look at your hardware > - run memtest and that sort of thing. > HTH, > Steve > -- > The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that > will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. > -- Mark Twain > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Jerome BENOIT, Ph.D. *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Institute of Molecular Biology Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena Winzerlaer Strasse 10, Jena 07745, Germany *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ [EMAIL PROTECTED] *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤
