Re: My new Etch 2.6.18-4 install segfaults and freezes!

2007-04-04 Thread A J Stiles
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 22:15, marie s wrote: Hi, I just tried to install etch from dvd on an AMD64 system and after the install, things have begun to go very badly system has been working fine for a day, but today dselect exited with an error about corrupt /var/cache files, and when I

cpu overheating

2007-04-04 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
Hello, When i do a cold start, the cpu fan barely spins. The result is that in a few minutes the cpu overheats and the system automatically shuts down. When i immediately turn it on again, the system detects the cpu's high temperature and begins spinning at higher speeds for the rest of the

Re: cpu overheating

2007-04-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:39:25PM +0300, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: Hello, When i do a cold start, the cpu fan barely spins. The result is that in a few minutes the cpu overheats and the system automatically shuts down. When i immediately turn it on again, the system detects the cpu's

Re: Re: cpu overheating

2007-04-04 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
Perhaps there is a BIOS option to enable/disable dynamic fan speed control. Sounds like it's enabled and not working too well. Disabling it shouldn't interfere with user/kernel software that tries to control it later. I entered bios settings and disabled the option 'AMD PowerNow Technology'.

Re: cpu overheating

2007-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Mader
In my BIOS the option is called Q-Fancontrol. Am Mittwoch 04 April 2007 21:04 schrieb Andrew Sharp: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:39:25PM +0300, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: Hello, When i do a cold start, the cpu fan barely spins. The result is that in a few minutes the cpu overheats and

xpdf segmentation faults

2007-04-04 Thread Seb
Hi, Is anybody having segmentation faults simply by attempting to launch xpdf? I've submitted a bug report on this, as I didn't see one already, but at least one other person reported this problem a couple of weeks ago. I get around it by logging off and back on again. Anybody else seeing this?

Re: xpdf segmentation faults

2007-04-04 Thread Manolo Díaz
Seb escribió: Hi, Is anybody having segmentation faults simply by attempting to launch xpdf? I've submitted a bug report on this, as I didn't see one already, but at least one other person reported this problem a couple of weeks ago. I get around it by logging off and back on again.

Re: xpdf segmentation faults

2007-04-04 Thread Seb
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:30:55 +0200, Manolo Díaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] No, xpdf works fine here. Do you use it very often? I do, and it doesn't segfault all the time but quite often. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?