Re: [Fink-devel] my problem computer

2007-03-26 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hi Jack, I think you mentioned this to me once before. I don't have AppleCare, but I'll bet my LAN administrator has TechTool. I'll ask him about that. To the list in general: In soliciting volunteers, when I said I needed to be able to verify your identity I just meant that I would correspond to

Re: [Fink-devel] my problem computer

2007-03-22 Thread Jack Howarth
Robert, Have you considered the possiblity of bad blocks on your hard drive? I saw something like that on my AppleRAID (with two SATA drives) of my dual G5. The fink builds were failing randomly until I reformatted the problem drive with zeroing to allow it to spare out bad blocks. If you happen

[Fink-devel] my problem computer

2007-03-22 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hi fink dev, Some of you know that I've had intermittent problems on my dualG5 for quite some time now. It has crossed software updates from 10.3 and 10.4, so I'm thinking it is a hardware problem. It has been suggested that it might be corrupt memory chips. I've filed a bug with Apple and am now