Re: Diagnosing faulty hardware

2004-09-15 Thread Lucas Albers
Kent West said: James Foster wrote: I believe this is most likely a hardware problem. Generally, the system is capable of staying up, although it has locked completely once or twice. You can also install the ltp kernel test program. This is an extensive test of hte kernel, and will crash the

Diagnosing faulty hardware

2004-09-14 Thread James Foster
Hello, I've been running Debian stable for a few months without any major issues. In the past week, Firefox (from backports.org) started closing (seemingly) randomly. The entire computer has also hung once or twice, and a couple of times, upon closing Firefox, X crashed. X has also crashed a

Re: Diagnosing faulty hardware

2004-09-14 Thread Kent West
James Foster wrote: I believe this is most likely a hardware problem. Generally, the system is capable of staying up, although it has locked completely once or twice. You can apt-get install memtest to test your RAM. (It'll install a stanza in /etc/lilo.conf, and then you just boot into