On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:53:54PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased a pentium machine (HP Vectra VL Series 4 5/100, > 32M). I installed debian upon it but noticed that the machine would > freeze up on occasion even in initial installation (badblocks read > test [rw worked fine]). Eventually I installed the whole system, but > when re-compiling the kernel, again, system-freeze. > > So I compiled a kernel on another machine (2.4.17) and brought it over > but still, on occasion the machine freezes. This is very troubling > because the drives are out of sync and I am currently faced with some > inodes in lost+found left over from the last time it froze - while > installing rsh-server via dpkg. The nodes in lost+found are related to > dpkg and/or apt; dpkg no longer works due to a parse in > /var/lib/dpkg/avaialble. > > It also freezes up during compiles - such as when compiling a kernel > or utils-linux. > > My first notion of what might be wrong is the memory, so I pulled down > a copy of memtest but the memory checked out fine. Next I assumed that > the pentium chip itself was overheating and purchased a fan for the > CPU. But, again, it froze. > > The machine itself uses the Intel PCIset chipset. > > Any ideas? and thank you for any help.
You're not using SCSI, are you? Crispin
