Chimaera didn't help, though the symptoms changed. I booted from the chimaera live desktop, and it started looking hopeful, but before much was running it had a kernel panic -- attempt to kill init. Yes, I checked the checksum on the download. And when I used chimaera to boot another computer (a Purism laptop) it worked flawlessly.
I'm once more suspecting hardware. Next stop -- memtest. And memtest shows an enormous number of memory failures. Which makes me suspect something systemic, not just a bit here or there. I'll have to replace the RAM, I guess. Or find out what memory bus is failing. -- hendrik On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 11:26 AM tempforever <[email protected]> wrote: > Download links are available on the devuan download page > https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan > > choose a mirror (for example, mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan/) then navigate > to the devuan_chimaera/ directory where you will hopefully find a > desktop-live/ directory which should contain > devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_[amd64|i386]_desktop-live.iso along with the > shasums files. If you prefer not to use http(s), there are ftp mirrors > and torrent on that same download page. > > Hendrik Boom via Dng wrote: > > Then I'd have to figure out how to get a new kernel into it while it > crashes during bootup, > which it now does quite consistently. > > If I had > made recent > changes (such as upgrades) I'd consider a kernel problem more likely. > > But it has been running for months with only occasional problems, and > now I get problems > every time I boot. Since I haven't done an upgrade > at all yet this month, I'll suspect hardware. > > Still, I will try, > say, a chimaera live CD if I can find one. Where are the Devuan live > CD's? > I seem to remember that they were called something other than > "devuan". > (Yes, I'm aware that the live CD will likely be a USB stick) > > > -- hendrik > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 7:47 AM Boian Bonev > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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