On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 14:29 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote:

> Will consider memtest as an option, but again, the memory is reasonably
> new - it was upgraded recently to have more memory on the laptop.

aha! that rings alarm bells... new memory?  no possibility it's faulty?
or was fitted with a tiny bit of dust on one of the pins?  you never
know...  If it fails on the big compiles like gcc, kernel, etc., then I
would bet it's the RAM...

cya,
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