On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 08:33:50PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > I've been happily running Debian/Sarge on my Athlon 1400, Giganyte GS-7@748-L > motherboard, 512 Mbytes RAM. > > Following a power failure, I > a) Replaced CPU fan > b) added a further 512 Mbytes RAM for a Giggle total. BAD RAM! check out memtest86 or memtest86+. > > On reboot, Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird (my primar email client) all segfault > on starting. > > Worse, parts of KDE (eg Konqueror and Kkmail) also crash randomly with > segfaults. > > > Surmising some corruption I applied 70 Mbytes or so of updates to no effect. > I'm pretty sure I installed Epiphany and that it also doesn't work. > > This Debian system has been seriously mistreated over time; I suspect I > originaly copies ~summer from a Valhalla system. > > Since I had 80 Mbytes or so of disk, I decided to install fc3. True to form I > copied ~summer from Sarge. > Well, here a crash there a crash. > > Actually, figuring that out wasn't as simple as it should be; some fartherless > soul thinks sending error messages to /dev/null a fine idea, and I'm not sure > that I checked that everything's the same. Some is, though, right down to > segaulting in the same scripts. > > Somewhere I began to suspect RAM so I ran two or three passes with memtest86 > (from the FC3 DVD) with no errors. > > That left corruption in ~summer so I spect some time trying to find common > config files used by the failing programs in ~summer. Couldn't see anything > so > > finally I created ~john and tried that. > > That also fails, and there is no chance of pollution of the FC3 system with > stuff from Sarge. > > So... > Is anyone running FC3 in 1 Gbyte RAM on IA32? > Does anyone else have any ideas? > > Here's the short-form list of the hardware: > Glider:~# lspci > 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 746 Host (rev 10) > 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202 > 0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media > IO] (rev 25) > 0000:00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016 > 0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] > 0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > Sound Controller (rev a0) > 0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 > Controller > 0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI > Fast Ethernet (rev 90) > 0000:00:09.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. > HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 01) > 0000:00:09.1 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. > HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 01) > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 > Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) > Glider:~# > > > That aside, there are two further critical barriers to my use of FC on the > Atlhon: > 1. > These work from Sarge to FC3 and Nahant: > > 8634 ? S 10:33 /etc/X11/X -query kookaburra :2 > 8651 ? S 1:47 /etc/X11/X -query dugong :1 > 8671 ? S 0:01 /etc/X11/X -query Thylacine.demo.room :3 > 8687 ? S 0:00 /etc/X11/X -query Quokka.demo.room :5 > > Actually, Quokka is a Sun Ultrasparc running Debian/Woody. > > They do not work from FC3 on that machine (Glider). There are no messages > about why on Glider to say why, and the others say: > Dec 19 15:54:36 kookaburra gdm[2878]: gdm_child_action: Aborting display > Glider.demo.room:1 > Dec 19 15:57:41 kookaburra gdm[2878]: gdm_child_action: Aborting display > Glider.demo.room:2 > > 2. > I switch virtual consoles often. I regularly switch between my GUI desktop to > a VC (quite likely I have six in use, some running screen). > This works as epected on Debian/Sarge, but I have serious video corruption on > FC3: not always, but once it starts I can only clear it with a reboot. I't > clearly based on what is supposed to be on the screen; VC1 with the boot > messages has more than the others, and all respond to the keyboard. > > I think (I have seen this before) the problem will not occur if I boot with > VGA=6, but I've not tried that yet. > > I'm looking forward to any handy hints regarding any of these. To the list pls > so others can comment. > > > -- > > Cheers > John Summerfield > tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." ---------------------------- Hebrews 4:12 (niv) ------------------------------
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