On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, I wrote: > > > I have RH8.0 (with all updates) installed on an Athlon/Asus A7V. I find > > after some time that I am unable to run the ps command. Running ps > > freezes the console or terminal it's run on. Once this has happened, if I > > attempt to shut the machine down, it hangs after stopping the RHN daemon > > and has to be reset. > > One thing I can do that reliably causes a problem is 'makewhatis'. If I > run makewhatis on this machine, it hangs. After that, attempts to run > 'ps' or 'ls /proc/<pid>' on the pid associated with the makewhatis hang as > described. > > I've also started to see occasional hangups on boot. These may happen at > various points in the process. Still no clue what might be causing it. > Changing BIOS setting from 'optimal' to 'normal' has no effect. > > Any clues on what else to look for would be mightily appreciated. Flakey memory after all. I opened the case and reseated the DIMMs, and so far, the system is behaving. The wierd thing is, memtest86 didn't inidicate a problem, even with 25 passes. Just goes to show, memtest86 isn't the final word on memory quality, I guess. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@clemson.edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
