Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Source: memtest86
> Source-Version: 4.0a-0.1
> * New upstream version (Closes: #622395
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622395>):
> - Support machines with>= 4GB of RAM. Closes: #522525
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522525>, #572347
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572347>, #582610
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582610>,
> #647756.
Considering the amount of RAM on new machines, this is bug is likely to be
grave enough to also deserve a fix in stable through proposed-updates.
For what it's worth, I suggested the same in #622395.
IMHO, it effectively makes the package entirely useless on a very large set
of machines, _and_ can induce users to replace perfectly good memory
modules.
For what it's worth, these false positives caused me to not only change
good RAM modules, but to change my entire laptop (to be fair, I had so
many problems with Debian and that laptop that I promised to myself I
would change it next time some issue would arise). It gave me the
impression that the laptop would break RAM modules.
Thank you very much for stepping in, Aurélien. The new version works on
my machine, an Intel Core i3 with 6 GB of RAM.
