bst wrote:
> I've been having problems now with my slackware 11 system for a few
> months now. I'll do my best to give relevant information in describing
> the situation. My uneducated guess is that this is a hardware problem
> but some of you may be able to help with even that. Starting a few
> months ago I have numerous and constant system failures, most of which
> are segfaults. It does not seem to matter what program I am using or how
> long I have been up and running. Right now my system runs between 10
> minutes to a few days before it crashes so bad I must reboot. At boot
> time I often get kernal paging errors and hotplug seems to run into
> problems as well, getting a lot of segfaults. I have not added any new
> hardware recently so I feel as if either my current hardware is failing
> (the computers nearly 6 years old and has not been taken good care of)
> or my system has somehow become corrupt. I would like to try installing
> slackware 12 but I cant even burn a cd or dvd right now, before it
> crashes, even by command line. I have switched from KDE to xfce, which
> seems to have helped some, but I still can only expect to surf the net
> or watch a video for no more than half an hour before I have a problem.
> I was wondering if A, there are any programs available to check for
> memory or hardware programs (that I wont have to compile, I cant compile
> even the simplest programs right now before a crash) or is it possible
> to install slackware from a mounted ISO. I'm not sure what log files to
> check that may have relevent information, so if you would like to know
> more, let me know where to look and I will get you the information. I'll
> also start copying some of the crash info, though most of the time all i
> get is a simple segfault message. what i remember of my hardware:
>
> I have a nvidia geforce3 card, using the nvidia drivers
> asus motherboard and a amd 1.3Ghz processeor
> plextor cdr and pioneer dvdr+/-
> one WD 80Gig HD and one WD 120 HD
> bestbuy brand firewire PCI card
> Soudblaster Live Mp3 PCI card
> Ethernet PCI card
> couple of onboard USB slots.
>
> All my programs work correctly....just not for very long.
>
> This may not be enough info, but please let me know what you need and
> i'll try my best to get it to you.
>
> Thanks
>
> bst
>
Get a copy of memtest86

http://www.memtest86.com/download.html

I have found this cures a lot of problems. I had a couple of linux
boxex that had a bad ram stick that I had run for months with
intermittent errors. I noticed it most if I tried to install a new
system (iso).

fb