Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:42:09PM -0400, Tuc wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Tuc wrote: > > > I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly > > > related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to > > > one > > > of the Dimm s

Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Tuc
> > > > Booting the machine in single-user mode and run "fsck -y". I'm betting > > you'll find errors. If not, then it's probably a kernel bug -- see > > below, however. > Ya lost the bet All filesystems were supposedly fine. Tuc __

Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Tuc
> > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Tuc wrote: > > I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly > > related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to one > > of the Dimm slots being bad. I did a memtest for 25 hours and it seemed > > stab

Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Tuc wrote: > I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly > related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to one > of the Dimm slots being bad. I did a memtest for 25 hours and it seemed > stable. memtes

Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Tuc
Hi, I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to one of the Dimm slots being bad. I did a memtest for 25 hours and it seemed stable. I started up and started downloading a backup of over 5K email