Thank you, Walt. I live on a tropical island. I've been going through about all the suggestions people have made and all the ideas I can think of. Changed NICs. Recompiled kernel with better configuration.
Uptime 1:39 An improvement from earlier today. I've edited /etc/fstab. But I'll leave grub alone until I'm sure what to do. Thank you again. Alan On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:52 AM, walt<w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/10/2009 05:16 PM, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I recently reported that I am suffering random reboots. I have now >> discovered an inconsistency in the reporting of the mount point of the >> root directory of my Gentoo install... > > No, the two are not related. In my experience, anything that goes wrong > at random times is related to hardware flakiness -- usually because some > piece of the hardware is running too hot. > > I happen to live in a very hot, dry, dusty place. I see random flakiness > just about every summer, which I fix by blowing the thick layer of dust > off of the CPU heatsink and RAM chips and the power supply with a can of > compressed gas. Of course, I also check that all of the fans in the case > are still working. > > Do you know about memtest86? If you have random nastiness you should run > memtest86 at least overnight to see if your RAM is becoming senile ;o) > > I have suggestions about grub also, but, to be coherent about them I need > to be much more awake than I am now. I'll check back tomorrow. > > >
