On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Ian Eure wrote: > > > In the last week, apt has crashed all three of my current potato boxes. > > > > This is extremely bad, but may not be apt's fault. > > 'may' -> 'is not' > > It is fundamentally impossible for APT, let alone any users space program > to crash a properly designed OS (for example, Linux) The fact that your > systems are crashing in a permanent way indicates a fundamental problem > either with the OS or your hardware. > I did consider that. I doubt it is my hardware, as it has occured on three different boxes with very different hardware, which were all running great not all that long ago. I understand that I am reporting a symptom, not a problem per se; however, apt crashes my box and other programs do not.
> I suggest you talk to the kernel people, or maybe ask if you don't have a > particularly buggy kernel version, or something like that. In fact the > kernel people will probably tell you to replace your > hardware/recompile/upgrade/whatever so you might want to try stuff like > that first. > 2.2.12 has been running on my systems for almost two months, and I have had no problems like this pop up. There are known issues with 2.2.12 and IDE on SMP boxes, but none of my systems are SMP, and I did not compile SMP kernels for single-cpu boxes. Replace my hardware? Maybe if it was only two systems, definitely if it only happened on one system. This is a recurring problem on disparate hardware with the same software. You find the common denominator. I already compile my kernels with gcc 2.7.2.3 - I am aware of the problems with newer GCCs. If you are going to brush me off, would you at least point me in a direction I have not already covered? -- .----------------------------------. | Ian Eure, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Linux geek extraordinare | | '------------------------------------------- | "I don't care if you want to smoke crack while buggering your partner on | a stack of rocket launchers. Just don't do it in front of my kids."
