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Re: [PLUG] system instability solved (I think)
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On 8/11/05, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com> wrote:
> 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
> 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
The break in updates could have been, in part, due the relocation of
the ftp master server...
Down:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00016.html
Back up:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00018.html
It disabled developer uploads to unstable and security, I not sure if
it did anything to testing.
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