On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 01:49:00PM -0600, Klaus Weidner wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:36:40PM +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > > Still I have to find out why the apt-get process > > crashes so often. I had to reboot (ie. remove battery) > > multiple times. > > My guess would be that this is due to a flaky storage card. Many of the > cheap ones don't seem to be designed for any type of access pattern more > complex than storing the occasional photograph. If you have the chance I > suggest that you try a different brand. > > The SL-5x00 models had a fairly unreliable SD driver which made the > problem worse, but I haven't had disk IO related crashes on my SL-C750 > using a Panasonic SD card.
I am using a Lexar 32x 1GB. Whatever that means. > You may want to try running "while true; do sync; sleep 1; done &" in the > background which had apparently improved things for some people. Yes, I have seen that hint on the wiki but so far hesitated to accept this as a solution ;-) I finally installed the stuff I wanted step by step. Will keep an eye on this issue ... -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
