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From: Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:36:25 +0100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake shutting down.
For the past few days, Mandrake has been shutting down with no action
from me. This can happen at any time , at any duration of uptime.
It can stay up for minutes..or hours..or days.
The only clue I can find is from the system log as follows:
Sep 22 14:19:36 Eclipse mdkkdm[1572]: X server for display :0 terminated
unexpectedly
Sep 22 14:19:36 Eclipse gconfd (ian-18431): Received signal 15, shutting
down cleanly
Sep 22 14:19:36 Eclipse gconfd (ian-18431): Exiting
Sep 22 14:19:39 Eclipse modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command
for scsi_hostadapter
Sep 22 14:19:39 Eclipse modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command
for scsi_hostadapter
The display goes back to an X login, then loads the graphical login
screen, which allows me to log back in.
Could anyone please point me in the correct direction to stop this
happening? I'm running Mandrake 10 official with kernal 2.6.3.7 on an
Athlon 750 with 512mb ram.
Ian, I recall having a similar issue in an earlier version of
Mandrake.
In my case it was a bad ram module that was the culprit.
I would suggest you run a memory test program like
memtest86 to check the possibility.
Hmmm, its a dual bootWindoze doesn't do it :-(
I'll have a go at this, might be the problem. I was inside the guts of the
beast last weekso it could be I've unseated something and its causing
random crashes. The fault seems to have went away again, as its stayed up for
two days now.
Thanks for the reply, I thought no-one was going to come out with a
suggestion.
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Ian, I dual-boot too, and at the time I was having the problem,
it was WinME. I am dual-booting with XP now.
It's worth noting that my WinME was working fine with the bad ram.
Linux uses ram somewhat differently than MS Win, and seems
to be more demanding in that regard.
memtest86 or an equivalent should tell the tale. Let the program run for several hours.
Might not be ram, but the test should determine that.
Best regards.
--Angus
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around
in awareness. -- James Thurber
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