Re: sid upgrade today & now nothing works
On 03-05-15 20:02 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Whereas the circumstances you describe sound like an upgrade gone wrong,
> your description "feels" to me like maybe a hardware problem. Perhaps
> Summer has finally kicked in where you are and your cooling is
> inadequate? gzip errors while running apt-get just sound to me more like
> hardware glitches than software issues.
>
> You might want to install memtest86 (you can use another machine and
> build a bootable memtest86 floppy if need be) and run a few rounds of
> tests. If you have lockups/failures during that, you can be pretty
> confident you've got a hardware problem.
I'm afraid you may be right. I happened to have a memtest86 3.0 floppy
lying around & it's been churning away for awhile now. Up until now,
it's only purpose has been to reassure me that "no, it's not memory
problems", but this round I got like 150K errors in the first 5
minutes... though it seems to have levelled off since then. I understand
it's best to let it go as long as you can stand it? like 24 hours? will
it make it's conclusions obvious to me when I finally kill it?
sorry about the not-so-on-topic question...
FWIW, I'm in NYC & it's definitely not what I would call summer yet, but
I have enabled 2.4.20 kernel ACPI since this time last year and
/proc/sys/thermal or whatever it is exists as a directory but is empty
(and /proc/whatever/fan doesn't exist at all)
sourceforge patches for that stuff were recently discussed on -laptop..
do you think I just need to install those?
(again, it's a sony vaio pcg-fx370k laptop)
thanks,
Kenneth
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