On Sat Nov 5 2011 15:07, David Vasek wrote: > On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Norman Golisz wrote: > > >On Sat Nov 5 2011 09:13, Forman, Jeffrey wrote: > >>Am I barking up the wrong tree trying to deduce if I really do have a > >>hardware problem? I am open to accepting diffs and compiling from source if > >>other developers think there might be a bug to fix here. > > > >It seems to be a hardware fault. To trap memory issues, you could try > >memtest86+ [1]. > > >[1] http://www.memtest.org/ > > Or ports/sysutils/memtest86+, which is the same and as a package it > is easier to deal with - it can be loaded by boot(8) directly from > /stand on your root filesystem. No CDs, floppies etc. are needed.
Thanks for the pointer. I was thinking of burning the ISO, but that's indeed better.