Weird problems on PB after memory upgrade
Hi.. I have a PB G4 1.33GHz 12" with a Debian 2.6.6 kernel (w/
Debian patches that I compiled). I've been experiencing some weird
problems after upgrading my RAM to 768 from 256MB. I used a module
from owc.com that met the Apple specifications. The problems: when
the daily cron job updatedb was running, the machine turned off all
of a sudden. I then had to start the machine using the start button.
When it restarted, the date was all wrong so I looked at syslog and
this is what I see:
Jun 10 06:25:01 varianceii /USR/SBIN/CRON[4379]: (root) CMD (test -e
/usr/sbin/a
nacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily)
Dec 31 17:04:33 varianceii syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart.
So I tried replicating it by running updatedb after it rebooted and
I got a message from the sound server saying "cpu overload".
Earlier, I had a situation where the machine just hung while it was
trying to start some program. I had to do a hard reboot. Also, some
of my programs such as mozilla do not work as they used to - it
crashes every 15 mins now. Another strange behavior that just
started recently - the wireless USB receiver (Dlink DWL-122) turns
off once in a while and I need to disconnect it manually and then
put it back and run the linux-wlan-ng script again to get it to
work. Has anyone had similar experiences before? I'm not able to
figure out if this is a hardware issue or something to do with 2.6.6
not being able to handle the higher memory well enough. Please let
me know if you have any suggestions or tests that I can run to
determine the cause. I'm thinking I'll do some stuff on OS X and see
if anything similar happens there...
Thanks,
nirmal
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