On Thu, Jun 29, 2000, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I tried installing potato on a G4 processor for a friend and had tons of >> trouble with segmentation faults. I had the system up and running fine >> then all of a sudden files started corrupting such as gzip, tar, etc. I >> ran gzip and it would only give trash. I also installed this multiple >> times with differant results each time but always resulting in file >> corruption. The last time I installed it the install process died >> premature during the package installation and dropped straight out to a >> login prompt before dpkg configured all the installed packages. When >> trying to login it complained of a bash problem. Are there any issues >> with running this on a G4? I have ran it on a G3 without much of a >> problem but with this G4 it's not even usable. Thanks in advnace. > >I'm typing this message from a G4 running Debian. Which kernel are you >using. > >I guess another question would be: does that machine correctly run another >operating system (such as MacOS)? The behavior looks a lot like bad >memory, or some kind of bus problem. Might also be a hard disk problem.
I see two other possible problems: - You may be using BootX instead of yaboot. This makes the kernel unreliable on recent machines - The gmac driver may, under certain circumstances, corrupt things in memory. A new driver fixing all known problems exist, it's not yet broadly available, but it is in my rsync tree that you can obtain with the following command mkdir benh_kernel cd benh_kernel rsync -arvz linuxcare.com.au::linux-pmac-benh . I'll post precompiled kernels one of these days (I still need to cleanup a few things, beware that this kernel contain experimental stuffs). This version should show up soon in Paul Mackerras rsync tree (linuxcare.com.au::linux-pmac-stable) soon. Ben.
