Jeff Abrahamson on 11 Aug 2005 18:08:57 -0000 |
I've posted several requests for help in understanding some instability I've been seeing on my new machine. I think it's stable now. I wanted to share what happened. In brief, while the problem surely started with a kernel / motherboard incompatibility, I believe I had a buggy library. Upgrading that library may have fixed the problem. By way of history, I first saw some kernel messages that indicated I should run with nopnpbios, noapic, and acpi=no. That helped some but didn't fix the problem. Running memtest for several hours didn't reveal anything. A suspicious item was that I was not seeing any signs of crashes happening uniformly over apps. For example, daemons did not appear to be disappearing. I would expect this if the hardware or kernel were flaky. After two weeks I began to find unlikely that apt-get update hadn't caused anything new to install on dist-upgrade. My apt/sources.list had originally only checked rutgers and security: deb ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/debian/ testing main deb-src ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/debian/ testing main deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main I added debian.org: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main deb-src ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main With that change a large number of packages were available for upgrade. That upgrade apparently fixed the problems. In any case, in the last three days, I have had no crashes, which is a very good sign. (I had been seeing several a day.) Thanks again to everyone on the list for their help. These sorts of problems are very frustrating: it's extremely helpful and comforting to have helpful, friendly, and knowledgeable folks to ask for help (and, I'm sorry, sometimes to whine to in frustration). -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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