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. snip 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

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 experience

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 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)

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: If the application of a domestic