RE: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 March 2006 15:54 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults > > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:23:17PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread b.n.
It's been several months ago, but I did run about eight hours of memtest86 on the memory. Is it unusual for memory to work fine for a while and *then* go bad? Mmm. No. Mine did exactly so. I might try a new power supply anyway. A faulty PS would give you odd hw-related (mostly cd-related) e

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread matthew . garman
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:23:17PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote: > If the application of a domestic cooling fan does not relieve the > problem, then it could well be faulty memory module(s), or a > faulty power supply. I'm afraid it's a random hardware failure. I've been running cpuburn for the

RE: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 March 2006 13:29 > To: gentoo-user > Subject: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults > > > > Recently, programs on my computer have been victims of abrupt > segfaults. [snip...] > Anyone else ever experien

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > Recently, programs on my computer have been victims of abrupt > segfaults. > The weird thing is, after waiting a while (say two or three hours), > the problem went away---everything just started working. > This sounds awfully like a heat problem, especially if the