Re: system instablity

1998-12-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
Sourcerer wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Ed C. writes: > > > > > I realize this is a rare problem, because few if anyone is seeing it, > > but its clear to me that its not a hardware problem, even though I > > understand that

Re: system instablity

1998-12-14 Thread Sourcerer
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Ed C. writes: > I realize this is a rare problem, because few if anyone is seeing it, > but its clear to me that its not a hardware problem, even though I > understand that you don't believe me, and you are not th

Re: system instablity

1998-12-14 Thread john
Ed Cogburn writes: > I don't see anything similar in Win95. That tends to point toward memory. Different OS's have very different memory usage patterns, and a bit that usually ends up storing user data in one may get part of a kernel data structure in another. > In fact, IIRC, I've never seen th

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > I realize this is a rare problem, because few if anyone is seeing it, > > but its clear to me that its not a hardware problem, even though I > > understand that you don't believe me, and you are not the only one to > > te

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Dan hursh wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Thanks Dan, I thought it was just me. I reported transient errors > > with > > apt/dpkg. Do the errors start with 'General Protection: 00' or > > 'General failure: ' or something like that? > > I don't know

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ed C. writes: > > I first got the same kind of 'General failure: 0' message from > > apt/dpkg then I got the kernel message that began with 'Aiyee' or > > something like that. It was the first time I've seen a hard kernel crash > > outside of the X win system. >

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Dan hursh
On 13 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > An X server can crash the kernel because it has privileged i/o and memory > access. Programs such as apt and dpkg cannot. What you got can only be > either a kernel bug or a hardware problem. Since apt and dpkg do nothing > at all out of the ordinary

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread john
Dan writes: > Could you tell if the General Protection/failure > messages were from dselect, or the kernel. Such messages can come only from the kernel. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread john
Ed C. writes: > I first got the same kind of 'General failure: 0' message from > apt/dpkg then I got the kernel message that began with 'Aiyee' or > something like that. It was the first time I've seen a hard kernel crash > outside of the X win system. An X server can crash the kernel because

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Dan hursh
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Thanks Dan, I thought it was just me. I reported transient errors with > apt/dpkg. Do the errors start with 'General Protection: 00' or > 'General failure: ' or something like that? I don't know if I'm any help. I've never gotten any

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Dan hursh wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm asking here because I'm hoping someone might have a nicer > diagnosis for what I'm seeing. I had been running a debian hamm > installation that I had upgraded with no trouble until I had a disk > failure. I verified it was the hard drive that was hosed.

system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Dan hursh
Hi all, I'm asking here because I'm hoping someone might have a nicer diagnosis for what I'm seeing. I had been running a debian hamm installation that I had upgraded with no trouble until I had a disk failure. I verified it was the hard drive that was hosed. Anyhow, I recent bought ham