On Wednesday 04 October 2006 18:24, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 21:01, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > To eliminate KDE problem I tried to run fluxbox with Firefox && > > xterm - same results - hard freeze. > > > > Did anybody see something similar or at least some educated > > guesses are welcome. > > Last time I experienced something like this was on a desktop which > had incompatible memory modules fitted. Trial and error resulted > in me removing all but one module and the crashes miraculously > stopped! Knoppix alone would not cause any crashes whatsoever, but > as soon as updatedb and an emerge were to take place > simultaneously, the system would crash. In particular, it would > usually crash when the memory of the modules was about to be > exhausted and the system was going to start writing on the swap > partition. It wouldn't happen every single time, but towards the > end it was happening every time I booted the darn thing up.
thanks for sharing. One question I have - did you run memtest86 or something similar at the time? The reason I'm asking - I ran memtest86 on this machine and it showed nothing. I'm not entirely sure how much I can trust memtest. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
