Martin Stiaszny wrote: > Let me start at the begining - I burned the rc1 cd netinstall candidate > for sarge on 6/21/04 I doubt it, that was not released until this Saturday. > installed it, and everything was good for 2 > months. Last friday, I was trying to fix the libpng vulnerability, and > in the process of installing aptitude, my apt-get replaced my libgcc1 > and some other stuff. This broke gcc. Some friends said it was most > likely just a broken dependency somewhere, so I did a dist-upgrade to > get everything back in sync. This fixed my gcc, but the dist-upgrade > also took the liberty of installing a new kernel, which is, > unfortunately, completely unstable. Like, it reboots every 20 seconds. > > To be 100% sure this problem was real, I just burned the rc1 cd > netinstall candidate from debian.org today and re-installed from > scratch. The install couldn't even finish because as soon as it > rebooted wtih this new kernel, it crashed 20 seconds later. I'm on a > Dell Dimension 2350. What is going on here? I have never had this kind > of problem from debian before. How far away is sarge from going stable? Check to see if hotplug or discover are loading a -tco module, such as i180-tco. These are hardware watchdogs and will reboot your machine. Failing that, write to the kernel people, I'd suggest a bug report on whatever the kernel package is. -- see shy jo
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