Am 21.04.2010 00:07, schrieb Stroller: > You emphasise how old the hardware is, but this really isn't a > problem. As you say, one increasingly fears the death of a system > which is getting so old, but I have two systems nearly as old running > for years without hardware problems.
Yes, it does what it should do. It's just that it gets more probable to have some strange and hidden defects *maybe*. But it would show other symptoms then, I assume. > The questions I must ask are: > > - How uptodate is the Gentoo software? - Do you run updates > regularly? - Did you run any shortly before this started occurring? - > Have you run revdep-rebuild and stuff? - Does the system have > sufficient swap? swap should be OK: # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 501 484 17 0 16 241 -/+ buffers/cache: 226 275 Swap: 494 288 205 OK, a bit more RAM wouldn't hurt here. But I am compiling stuff right now. - ad updates: I was rather defensive there, I have to admit .. Just like "never touch a running system" ... I updated the relevant pkgs like postfix, samba, clamav ... but there are around 60 pkgs to update today. Stuff like glibc, udev, pam .... I will apply them now step by step ... revdep-rebuild was OK before, I had checked that after the last updates a few days ago. My first idea was to upgrade the kernel to maybe catch some relevant fixes, that was about a week ago. There was no specific update triggering this, in fact I hadn't touched that box for weeks when the responsible man called me to tell me about the new problems ... Stefan