Re: Woody get frozen
Thank you for your advice:
I retrograted to Potato
and I still get the same problem:
this should be a hardware problem,
not a software problem.
Jerome
Stephen Gran wrote:
>
> Thus spake Jerome BENOIT:
> >
> >
> > Nick Jacobs wrote:
> > >
> > > Woody is obviously not ready for release. If you have
> > > urgent serious work to do, you should be using Potato.
> >
> > I am ready to believe you and to retrograde to Potato,
> > but at the Debian official site we can read
> > "This distribution [Woody] is currently in the ``testing'' phase,
> > but stabilizing and close to being ``frozen''."
> > ( http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/ ).
> >
> > What does "close" mean here ?
> > > >
> > > > My fresh Debian/Woody (two processor) computer
> > > > experiences freezing
> > > > when I want to launch jobs as building a new kernel,
> > > > computing funny stuff with Maple 7,...
> > > > To restart I have to to reset.
> > > >
> > > > To quickly solve it, I have tried different kernel
> > > > (2.2.19;2.4.14,2.4.16),
> > > > but it still freezes.
> > > > And I urgently need it to make huge computations.
> > > >
> > > > Any idea ?
> > > > Is it Woody really on the edge to be frozen ?
> > > > How can we figure out the problem ?
> Woody has 'frozen' which means that no new packages are being accepted
> into the distribution, but bugfixes and some ironing out has to be
> done before release (I think - somebody correct me if I'm wrong,
> please). To go back to your original problem, Woody should not be
> locking your box up if it's set up decently. Assuming that you don't
> have something really strange going on with the software, and this
> occurs with both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, I would say look at your hardware
> - run memtest and that sort of thing.
> HTH,
> Steve
> --
> The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that
> will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
> -- Mark Twain
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