Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:18:09 -0500, Borden Rhodes wrote:
> Can I get a second on Teddy's opinion? I tend to believe that I just
> share the Linux experience, and if I can get something useful done
> whilst the computer is willing, so much the better. Is this the truth
> about open source software? Maybe I am in the wrong distribution and
> I'm wasting the list's time.
Or maybe you are not interested in getting your problems solved.
There is no much room for your point. It is no difficult to see for
anyone who has been (and still is) working with windows systems (that's
me) a big difference for troubleshooting problems in both, linux an
windows. I mean debugging "real" problems. Windows logs tell nothing
about the nature of the error and applications are not usually very
verbose.
> What's important to emphasise here is that I'm not an idiot.
And nobody tell that.
> Camaleón, I can tell the difference between a hardware problem and a
> software problem. I fix computers for profit so I know how to
> troubleshoot problems when I have a clear set of symptoms which I can
> isolate and test. Yes, I test my hard drive and RAM so, by the process
> of elimination, the problem *is* the software.
Congrats. For me is very difficult to provide an accurate diagnosis when
hardware problems arise because no logs are being written and you have to
make use of your crystal-ball (if available) and/or your previous
experience. Neither for a newbie nor skilled user is an easy task. You
can get your bdd to crash just for using a ram module not recommended by
the manufacturer of the board or by mixing between two different brands.
And you neither get a memtest warning nor a single line advising you
about this. And this can happen in any OS.
You seem to have concluded that yours is a software problem. Good. I'm
still waiting for a detailed explanation about it, because you want to
solve the issue, right? >:-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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