Re: New box crashes
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:15:25AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> So far it has about five hours with no errors. I'm hoping there are
> other diagnostics I can use.
Well a lot of people who have reported stability problems with new
athlon 64 machines ran memtest and got nothing, and still their
problems were caused by the ram. memtest can tell you if you have a
problem in many cases. It can never tell you that you do not have a
problem.
> This seems unlikely -- the messages I'm getting look more like memory
> management than I/O. I have one GB -- I'm thinking that might not be
> enough for a 64-bit kernel.
Should be plenty for most uses. Certainly has been for me.
What chipset does you system use? That may give a much better clue as
to whether there may be kernel problems for that board.
> What's the package in Etch that does that? I couldn't find it in the
> Gnome desktop.
lm-sensors, etc, but it is board/chipset specific, not something that
just works genericly.
> Pretty much all the distros and kernels ranging from 2.6.17 through
> 2.6.18 do this. If I can get the 2.6.20 kernel to build without a crash
> during the compile, I'll check it out.
Certainly 2.6.20 might fix some of the many many issues with the ATI
SB600 chipset.
> By the way, so far, Etch has been the most stable and it's the only one
> that's configured the video right. Feisty Fawn crashed during the
> install, CentOS can't give me a reasonable looking screen and Gentoo
> hasn't been able to do a kernel build without crashing. If I can figure
> out "make-kpkg" and start building my own kernels, "lenny" may be the
> best choice for this system. It's a scientific workstation.
--
Len Sorensen
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