I guess I need a little bit help.
Yesterday evening I had a perfectly running potato system. Since I came back
to the machine this morning, very strange things keep happening and I don't
know why.
Is it possible that this is a processor problem ? I'm using a AMD K6-2/266,
overclocked to 300MHz, working without problems since over a year.
- "info -f gmp" coredumps when paging "Installing MP" unto the end
("xmalloc: Out of virtual memory!")
- wmaker segfaults
- all things using gtk work very strangely, most themes won't work any more.
All applications that use imlib to renders things output black boxes
instead of pixmaps.
- genius coredumps for "1/2" (but not for things like "4/2") (somewhere in
libgmp)
- python: "round(0.0)" sometimes returns "0.0", sometimes "nan"!!!:
freefly;12> python -c "print round(0.0); print round(0.0),round(0.0)"
0.0
nan 0.0
- suidunregister doesn't work anymore ("if (@_ != 1)" seems to be always
true!!), therefore many install scripts fail.
- "mv file /tmp" sometimes coredumps with an memory protection error.
- scrollbars in xterms are black
- scrollers in Netscape don't work reliable any more.
- etc.pp.
These problems are all reproducible, still I don't see a common pattern,
perhaps except numerical routines ???
The strange thing is that most things do work just like before, including
networking and other high-level things.
One of the last things I did before going to bed was "hdparm -u1 -c1 -m16".
I thought this may have corrupted the filesystem, therefore I started to
reinstall most packages, but this didn't change a thing.
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