-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:37:51PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Debian Etch installation that's beoming increasingly > unstable. It periodically freezes up, with nothing in the logs until > it is rebooted. I suspect a hardware problem, and would like to > identify it or rule it out before doing an upgrade to Lenny. > > Can anybody recommend a good hardware diagnostic or "burn-in" program? > I have used memtest86 and will try that, but ideally I'd like to > stress test more of the system than just the memory. Something that > can run on Debian Etch while the machine is live is ideal, or > something that can be run from a boot CD. Free is preferred (of > course), but any suggestions are welcome. > > Also, if anybody has a suggestion of what might fix an Etch system > that's freezing up periodically with nothing in the logs, those > suggestions are welcome too. :-) > > Thanks! > > ----Scott.
A friend and I were just discussing this earlier tonight. You could try any live-CD of your choice for a memory test. I found a thread for a hard drive test http://tinyurl.com/o3vmy7 while `true`; do mke2fs -c -c <device>; done I believe that will perform a slower read/write test not sure if you'll be able to keep the data. And you can heat things up a bit with... md5sum /dev/zero which should get things pretty hot pretty quickly, so keep an eye on your temps. Aside from that there are a few other threads I found searching over the archives. http://tinyurl.com/ojnsce - -- Daryl Styrk Naples, FL USA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoTjnQACgkQ6baBhW8Czrg8wQCfb9ealwU+FWalFmuRojefj1rA WkkAniKJ1eWTAx6jEcXQ7MvjFYmmD8U8 =qPm5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org