Re: New box crashes
On Mon, 07 May 2007 16:20:09 +0200, 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.
That's the most accurate I know about. As suggested by Lennart, check
that the timings in the BIOS are set to "auto".
> 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.
I have 1GB of good RAM on my box and I have never had a problem. I
suggested the HD cables because I had such a problem a few weeks ago :)
> What's the package in Etch that does that? I couldn't find it in the
> Gnome desktop.
lm_sensors is what you're looking for.
> 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.
There's a 2.6.20 in Sid. Maybe it's been backported to Etch, or you can
just install the .deb package.
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Best Regards, Jack
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