On 06/29/2011 11:33 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:21:55AM -0400, Doug Vetter wrote:Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 Version: 2.6.32-35 Working on a Tyan 5382 system equipped with Debian 6.0.1 AMD64. After inserting a common USB-based flash drive into a USB port I attempted to raw write a bootable amd64 image generated with live-build: dd if=binary.img of=/dev/sdb where /dev/sdb is the device name assigned to the USB flash drive.[...] The kernel error messages indicate memory corruption. Could be a hardware or software error. Have you seen other crashes on this system recently?
No. This is a stable development box I've been using for several years without issue.
Until I installed 6.0.1 AMD64 a couple days ago it was most recently running Debian 6.0.0 i386 with no issues, and I was doing the same dd operation on that architecture. The problem only appeared when I attempted that operation under 6.0.1 AMD64.
Can you test the RAM using the memtest86+ package?
Ran it for an hour or so, no errors noted. Physical memory is ECC, by the way.
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