Re: Installed for the first time, strange problems
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:50, Sam wrote:
> I just installed Debian for the first time on my Power Mac 6500.
> I put on a few packages, including the 2.4.28-powerpc woody kernel image.
> But now the strangest things are happening.
> Sometimes when I am in enlightenment it will just freeze up. Moving the
> mouse and pressing keys does nothing. The transmit light on the ethernet
> card flashes every so often, but pinging the machine from the other one
> (two machine ethernet using crossover cable) does not work.
> And other times I get an "Oops" message for no apparent reason. This
> happens often during the shutdown process.
> Upon occasion after I type my login and password into xdm, the little
> "opening session for user storm" will appear on the xconsole, and then
> one of two strange things will happen. Sometimes it will almost
> instantly print the closing session for user storm message. Other times
> it won't seem to do anything. The really strange part is that the "xdm"
> processes owned by storm refuse to die, even with kill -9 from a root
> login on tty1. Even with a "shutdown now" and then hitting control-D to
> start things up again.
> And, most recently, I started up, logged in, opened an Eterm, and tried
> to use netcat. It died with an illegal instruction. Then I tried ssh.
> Same. Neither seemed to do anything before printing "Illegal
> Instruction".
> What's going on? What can I do?
Sounds like either a kernel or a hardware problem. The fact that most
other people don't seem to experience the same problems with the same
kernel points towards the hardware I'm afraid - might be faulty RAM or
something. Anything interesting in the kernel output?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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