Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-28 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:59:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:04:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much further trying (documented to some extent in this thread) I'm back to suspecting the software again. I've summarized the state of affairs as

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-26 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 03:22:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 23 June 2006 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while now, about five months and I still haven't gor my AMD64 working properly . Evidently, something is hogging some critical resource, possibly the CPU

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:04:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much further trying (documented to some extent in this thread) I'm back to suspecting the software again. I've summarized the state of affairs as it's known as of now and filed it as a bug against xorg: bug

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-26 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:59:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:04:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much further trying (documented to some extent in this thread) I'm back to suspecting the software again. I've summarized the state of affairs as

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-26 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:05:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:59:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:04:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much further trying (documented to some extent in this thread) I'm back to

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-26 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:28:12AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:05:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:59:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:04:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much further

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-18 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 07:21:06AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:43:55PM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malag?n wrote: An importat thing about havig ssh acces is the problem is not wqith the machine is with your applications, try vesa X driver... You could have only a

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-13 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:43:55PM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malag?n wrote: An importat thing about havig ssh acces is the problem is not wqith the machine is with your applications, try vesa X driver... You could have only a unstable X... I'm currently running the vesa X driver. Previously I had

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Once again, when it crashes, I can sometimes still manage to use a ssh connection to get in from elsewhere. What information should I collect, and how should I analyse it? Have you tried using completly new ram from a different vendor or different make (e.g.

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-13 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
Try a X enviroment running inside a chroot or an installation 32bits... On 7/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:43:55PM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malag?n wrote: An importat thing about havig ssh acces is the problem is not wqith the machine is with your

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-13 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 07:21:06AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem shows up as dead mouse pointer. Which maked X pretty useless. But if the system is in a state where it might expect keyboard input, it continues to react to the keyboard. I can continue to enter a URL into

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-12 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 02:53:17PM +, Dimitris Lampridis wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 12:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Left it running overnight. 9 full passes through memory, *no* faults detected. If you search recent posts on the list, you'll see that I also had problems with my

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-12 Thread Corey Hickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, when it crashes, I can sometimes still manage to use a ssh connection to get in from elsewhere. What information should I collect, and how should I analyse it? Start with 'dmesg'. Look for anything erroneous and/or send the output to the list. You can

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-25 Thread hendrik
Left it running overnight. 9 full passes through memory, *no* faults detected. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-25 Thread Dimitris Lampridis
On Sunday 25 June 2006 12:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Left it running overnight. 9 full passes through memory, *no* faults detected. If you search recent posts on the list, you'll see that I also had problems with my memory and they were not discovered by memtest. So, as others have

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-25 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 02:53:17PM +, Dimitris Lampridis wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 12:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Left it running overnight. 9 full passes through memory, *no* faults detected. If you search recent posts on the list, you'll see that I also had problems with my

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-24 Thread Nelson Menezes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vesa drivers without nvidia glx: firefox still crashes, only more slowly. Look like nvidia's stuff is off the hook. I'd definitely try memtest86+. Install, reboot, pick the option from GRUB and let it run overnight. I have a similar setup to yours, and was having

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-24 Thread hendrik
I had no idea this was going to be this difficult! On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:05:14AM +0100, Nelson Menezes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vesa drivers without nvidia glx: firefox still crashes, only more slowly. Look like nvidia's stuff is off the hook. I'd definitely try memtest86+.

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-24 Thread Dimitris Lampridis
On Saturday 24 June 2006 10:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't see a memtest option on grub, though I've installed memtest86+. Evidently I have to edit the grub configuration, or use its c or e options when booting, but I'm completely clueless on this. Since you installed the package, the

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-24 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:09:30PM +, Dimitris Lampridis wrote: On Saturday 24 June 2006 10:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't see a memtest option on grub, though I've installed memtest86+. Evidently I have to edit the grub configuration, or use its c or e options when booting, but I'm

apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-23 Thread hendrik
It's been a while now, about five months and I still haven't gor my AMD64 working properly. Granted, I haven't been working at it *all* the time, have taken time off to bury my father and deal with an estate and taxes. There are always death and taxes, aren't there? It's working better than

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-23 Thread A J Stiles
On Friday 23 June 2006 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while now, about five months and I still haven't gor my AMD64 working properly . Evidently, something is hogging some critical resource, possibly the CPU (the usual suspect) but it could also be a networking resource,

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-23 Thread Jo Shields
A J Stiles wrote: On Friday 23 June 2006 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while now, about five months and I still haven't gor my AMD64 working properly . Evidently, something is hogging some critical resource, possibly the CPU (the usual suspect) but it could also be a

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-23 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:24:58PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: And run your sticks of RAM, one at a time, through memtest, for a good 24 or so hour run That's the memtest now packaged in package memtester, formerly part of sysutils, which tests memory while Linux is running? Or should I look

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-23 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:07:34PM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: First thing to try: get rid of the closed-source nVidia drivers and try using the i-tal nv driver instead. See how the system fares then. Can openGL work with nv? Do I have to carefully uninstall OpenGL-related packages that

Re: apparent crashes persist -- memtester

2006-06-23 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:24:58PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: A J Stiles wrote: On Friday 23 June 2006 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while now, about five months and I still haven't gor my AMD64 working properly . Evidently, something is hogging some critical resource,

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-23 Thread Dimitris Lampridis
On Friday 23 June 2006 15:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the memtest now packaged in package memtester, formerly part of sysutils, which tests memory while Linux is running? Or should I look at memtest86+? Will it run on AMD64? I've invoked many times memtest86 from Grub without any

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:29:55AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can openGL work with nv? Do I have to carefully uninstall OpenGL-related packages that just know how to talk with nvidia? You can run opengl with mesa libraries, which do opengl in software. There is no modern card that has

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-23 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:07:34PM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: On Friday 23 June 2006 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while now, about five months and I still haven't gor my AMD64 working properly . Evidently, something is hogging some critical resource, possibly the CPU

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-23 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 03:22:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:07:34PM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: On Friday 23 June 2006 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while now, about five months and I still haven't gor my AMD64 working properly .

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-06-23 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 03:36:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 03:22:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:07:34PM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: On Friday 23 June 2006 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while now, about five