On Thursday 13 March 2008 10:46:49 am Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2008 12:23:18 am Dan Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 00:01 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > [OS X lockups and sha1sum failures under linux on ppc mac] > > > > So anyone have suggestions for diagnosing exactly what component is > > > starting to fail? My first thought was cpu, then motherboard, and now > > > memory... I figure memory is probably the easiest place to start > > > poking, but is there a memtest86 equivalent for PowerPC? If not, I > > > guess its memory stick roulette, and on to other hardware from there. > > > Open to any and all suggestions... > > > > RAM is definitely the first place to look. You also might just want to > > take the RAM out and firmly reseat it. That's fixed these sorts of > > things for me a few times before. [...] > Just found http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/ and will see if that > builds/runs/does something useful under ppc32 linux or os x... There's also > a non-free (but fairly cheap at $1.39) memtest os x at > http://memtestosx.org/. Never mind. Memory stick roulette suggests either all the sticks are bad, or something else is failing. Backed off to running my sha1sum test with only 1 stick at a time, and could reproduce the sha1sum failures on each of them. Failures seem to happen more frequently after a number of iterations, like after the system heats up a bit. On with the show... -- Jarod Wilson jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
