Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-27 Thread Cameron Kerr
On 27 Jan 2002, Andreas Goesele wrote: >Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, if the error is indeterminate, then I would start to suspect your >> hardware. Errors such as this often indicate bad memory, in my >> experience. Getting segfaults all the time is a classic example of this

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-27 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'd ask on the kernel mailing list and/or on comp.os.linux.system. > > Thanks. But where would I find comp.os.linux.system? My news-server > doesn't provide it nor did I find it on googles group

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-27 Thread ben
On Saturday 26 January 2002 05:48 pm, Andreas Goesele wrote: [snip] > The problem BTW returned again, now the third time, again only for > some minutes. It started during a cron job and started and *ended* > during heavy disk activity. as i mentioned earlier, you should determine whether one of t

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread ben
On Saturday 26 January 2002 04:25 pm, Andreas Goesele wrote: [snip] > I was thinking of that. But to my uneducated eye entries in cron.d, > cron.daily, cron weekly and cron.monthly looked rather inoffensive. Or > is there something in the following lists which could be the offender? > Is there some

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Andreas Goesele
Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, if the error is indeterminate, then I would start to suspect your > hardware. Errors such as this often indicate bad memory, in my > experience. Getting segfaults all the time is a classic example of this. > > Get hold of memtest86 (http://www.tere

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Andreas Goesele
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks. But would that explanation be compatible with the fact that my > > system most of the time functions all-right and then suddenly for some > > time (one day and then a few minutes) not? If libc.so.6 wasn't > > backwards compatible I would expect that the

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread ben
On Saturday 26 January 2002 03:34 pm, Andreas Goesele wrote: [snip] > > >> foo: relocation error: /lib/libnss_compat.so.2: symbol rectory, > > >> version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time > > >> reference > > > > OK, GLIBC_2.0 refers to glibc5 (or 4?). Anyway, the likely reason

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Cameron Kerr
On 27 Jan 2002, Andreas Goesele wrote: >Thanks. But would that explanation be compatible with the fact that my >system most of the time functions all-right and then suddenly for some >time (one day and then a few minutes) not? If libc.so.6 wasn't >backwards compatible I would expect that the probl

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Andreas Goesele
Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >* Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > >> Simple description: Suddenly most programs won't start anymore but will > >> give the error message: > >> > >> foo: relocation error: /lib/libnss_compat.so.2: symbol rectory, > >> version GLIBC_

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Andreas Goesele
Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd ask on the kernel mailing list and/or on comp.os.linux.system. Thanks. But where would I find comp.os.linux.system? My news-server doesn't provide it nor did I find it on googles groups. Andreas Goesele

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Cameron Kerr
>* Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: >> Simple description: Suddenly most programs won't start anymore but will >> give the error message: >> >> foo: relocation error: /lib/libnss_compat.so.2: symbol rectory, >> version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time >> refe

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-26 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > my problem as described in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and with > some more details in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> returned, though > only for some minutes. > > Simple description: Suddenly most programs won't start anymore but will > give the error m

Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-25 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, my problem as described in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and with some more details in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> returned, though only for some minutes. Simple description: Suddenly most programs won't start anymore but will give the error message: foo: relocation error: /lib/libnss_compat.so.2: symbol rect