Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Just curious: why not amd64? I'm running it on my Athlon64 3800+. The _only_ thing I need 32-bit for is adobe flashplayer, for which I run a chroot for the browser. That problem is fixed in Lenny/Sid but I didn't want to go that route. After having done it, setting

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson wrote: I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing Etch. Anyone with insight would be appreciated. Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow a

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:04:58PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd li

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow away the Debian Testing install

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson wrote: I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing Etch. Anyone with insight would be appreciated. Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-24 Thread Mike Robinson
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Next time you compile things, start a couple of sessions (=separate > windows): > - vmstat 5 - to keep track of free memory and swapping > - top - sorted so the most memory hungry processes are on top > - tail -f /var/log/syslog - to see when oom-killer fires up > - a co

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-22 Thread Mike Robinson
Karl, First off, thank you very much for looking so closely at my logs! I truly appreciate your time. 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

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Mike Robinson
Andrei Popescu wrote: It has already been said, you might want to try the K7 kernel. I first went that route: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00386.html Plus, it's well established that the AMD processors are fully compatible with 686 (they never would have sold a chip otherwise

Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Mike Robinson
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. M

Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues

2007-07-08 Thread Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson wrote: I updated using "apt-get upgrade" and the problem still persisted. It may have to do with one of the modules I built and installed. So, to introduce two variables to the equation, I decided to start over and install the 686 kernel. Without adding any new mo

Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues

2007-07-07 Thread Mike Robinson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: So my suggestion would be to bring your system right up-to-date across the board and then see if you still have the problem. I updated using "apt-get upgrade" and the problem still persisted. It may have to do with one of the modules I built and installed. So, to

Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues

2007-07-06 Thread Mike Robinson
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:48:47 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote > Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > Hi Mike, FWIW, I have the same chip, AMD64 Athlon 3200+. I use the K8 kernel > > image when running a 64bit kernel but I have always used a 686 kernel image > > for 32 bit so I use 2.6.18-4-686 and not 2.6.18-4-k7.

Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues

2007-07-06 Thread Mike Robinson
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi Mike, FWIW, I have the same chip, AMD64 Athlon 3200+. I use the K8 kernel image when running a 64bit kernel but I have always used a 686 kernel image for 32 bit so I use 2.6.18-4-686 and not 2.6.18-4-k7. The description of the K7 kernel is: "2.6.18 on 32bit AMD Duron/Athlo

Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues

2007-07-05 Thread Mike Robinson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Since Etch hasn't been stable for a year and a half, we need some basics: contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list contents of /etc/debian_version When last you did a successful update/upgrade cycle and what package manager you use. I use "apt-get" from the command li

Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues

2007-07-05 Thread Mike Robinson
My system has been quite stable for the past year and half. I've recently upgraded the kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.18-4-k7. I'm running an AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ (yes with a 32-bit kernel). I attempted to install the modules for nVidia, IVTV, and LIRC. LIRC didn't go so well, so I tried to back