From: jjsf@gmv.es (Julio Sanchez) Subject: Re: 0.98.1 crashes a lot on my 33MHz 16MB 486DX Date: 27 Oct 1992 16:17:00 GMT
In article <2494@eonwe.gmv.es> I wrote:
>I have bought a new machine to run Linux at home. I have installed
>the HJ rootdisk and assorted stuff. The machine hangs soon. Behaviour
>is not repeatable. Sometimes it is a general protection error, sometimes
>an executable gets corrupted and SIGSEGV's, sometimes it just reboots,
>sometimes it does not let me login at all. I get core dumps all over
>the place. ls is a favourite core dumper, closely followed by login.
>This is to be expected since I rarely get to try anything more
>sophisticated.
>
[etc.]
>This evening I will try to do the installation from fresh copies of the
>HJ disks.
I did it and guess what? It works. I remade with rawrite my floppies at
work, went home and started installation from scratch. All floppies write
protected just in case except the HJ rootdisk (but I took 2 copies of it).
Everything worked as it should have. I did not see a glitch. I had it
running 9 hours last night.
I don't know what happened, so I don't know how to prevent it in the
future. At least I know neither my hardware nor Linux are terminally
broken or incompatible. I seriously suspect my appliances. I made sure
that neither the clothes washer not the dish washer were working.
The fact that all those problems happened during a weekend might suggest
electrical power problems too. I live in a second-residence area, not
very populated during on workdays but with many more people during
the weekend.
Regards,
Julio
-- Julio Sanchez, GMV SA, Isaac Newton 11, PTM Tres Cantos, E-28760 Madrid, Spain Ph. +34 1 807 21 85 | jsanchez@gmv.es | Traveller, there is no Fax +34 1 807 21 99 | jsanchez%gmv.es@Spain.EU.net | path; paths are made by Telex 48487 GMEV E | Julio_Sanchez_GMV@EuroKom.ie | walking (A. Machado)