Re: Diagnosing faulty hardware

2004-09-15 Thread Lucas Albers
Kent West said: > James Foster wrote: > >>I believe this is most likely a hardware problem. >>Generally, the system is capable of staying up, although it has locked >>completely once or twice. You can also install the ltp kernel test program. This is an extensive test of hte kernel, and will crash

Re: Diagnosing faulty hardware

2004-09-14 Thread Kent West
James Foster wrote: I believe this is most likely a hardware problem. Generally, the system is capable of staying up, although it has locked completely once or twice. You can "apt-get install memtest" to test your RAM. (It'll install a stanza in /etc/lilo.conf, and then you just boot into memte

Diagnosing faulty hardware

2004-09-14 Thread James Foster
Hello, I've been running Debian stable for a few months without any major issues. In the past week, Firefox (from backports.org) started closing (seemingly) randomly. The entire computer has also hung once or twice, and a couple of times, upon closing Firefox, X crashed. X has also crashed a coupl