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Re: Stability issues



On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:22:47AM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote:
> I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half.  It's been 
> quite stable.  I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago.  It's been 
> unstable since.  By unstable I mean that applications may crash (disappear) 
> and the system may freeze.  The system is freezing about once a day.
>
> My processor is an Athlon 64 3200+, but I'm running the 686 kernel 
> (2.6.18-4).  I've posted a few logs here:

It has already been said, you might want to try the K7 kernel.

>   http://robinsonhome.org/logs1/dmesg.txt
>   http://robinsonhome.org/logs1/kern.log
>   http://robinsonhome.org/logs1/messages
>
> One thing I noticed while recompiling various applications is that gcc 
> would display the following error:

Why would you recompile applications?

> Does this mean that it's building the application as 64-bit?  Could my 
> distribution somehow now be mixed 32 and 64 bit?  Could this possibly 
> be the source of my problems?  If so, how can I recover?  If not, any 
> suggestions as to how I should continue troubleshooting?

You can see what your system thinks of your architecture by running 
'dpkg --print-architecture' (should be i386).

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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