Athlon+1024 Mb RAM+FC3

Wed Dec 22 00:41:49 UTC 2004

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 08:33:50PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> I've been happily running Debian/Sarge on my Athlon 1400, Giganyte GS-7 at 748-L 
> motherboard, 512 Mbytes RAM.
> 
> Following a power failure, I
> a) Replaced CPU fan
> b) added a further 512 Mbytes RAM for a Giggle total.

BAD RAM!

check out memtest86 or memtest86+.

> 
> On reboot, Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird (my primar email client) all segfault 
> on starting.
> 
> Worse, parts of KDE (eg Konqueror and Kkmail) also crash randomly with 
> segfaults.
> 
> 
> Surmising some corruption I applied 70 Mbytes or so of updates to no effect.
> I'm pretty sure I installed Epiphany and that it also doesn't work.
> 
> This Debian system has been seriously mistreated over time; I suspect I 
> originaly copies ~summer from a Valhalla system.
> 
> Since I had 80 Mbytes or so of disk, I decided to install fc3. True to form I 
> copied ~summer from Sarge.
> Well, here a crash there a crash.
> 
> Actually, figuring that out wasn't as simple as it should be; some fartherless 
> soul thinks sending error messages to /dev/null a fine idea, and I'm not sure 
> that I checked that everything's the same. Some is, though, right down to 
> segaulting in the same scripts.
> 
> Somewhere I began to suspect RAM so I ran two or three passes with memtest86 
> (from the FC3 DVD) with no errors.
> 
> That left corruption in ~summer so I spect some time trying to find common 
> config files used by the failing programs in ~summer. Couldn't see anything 
> so
> 
> finally I created ~john and tried that.
> 
> That also fails, and there is no chance of pollution of the FC3 system with 
> stuff from Sarge.
> 
> So...
> Is anyone running FC3 in 1 Gbyte RAM on IA32?
> Does anyone else have any ideas?
> 
> Here's the short-form list of the hardware:
> Glider:~# lspci
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 746 Host (rev 10)
> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
> 0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media 
> IO] (rev 25)
> 0000:00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016
> 0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
> 0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 
> Sound Controller (rev a0)
> 0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 
> Controller (rev 0f)
> 0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 
> Controller (rev 0f)
> 0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 
> Controller
> 0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI 
> Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
> 0000:00:09.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. 
> HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 01)
> 0000:00:09.1 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. 
> HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 01)
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 
> Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)
> Glider:~#
> 
> 
> That aside, there are two further critical barriers to my use of FC on the 
> Atlhon:
> 1.
> These work from Sarge to FC3 and Nahant:
> 
>  8634 ?        S     10:33 /etc/X11/X -query kookaburra :2
>  8651 ?        S      1:47 /etc/X11/X -query dugong :1
>  8671 ?        S      0:01 /etc/X11/X -query Thylacine.demo.room :3
>  8687 ?        S      0:00 /etc/X11/X -query Quokka.demo.room :5
> 
> Actually, Quokka is a Sun Ultrasparc running Debian/Woody.
> 
> They do not work from FC3 on that machine (Glider). There are no messages 
> about why on Glider to say why, and the others say:
> Dec 19 15:54:36 kookaburra gdm[2878]: gdm_child_action: Aborting display 
> Glider.demo.room:1
> Dec 19 15:57:41 kookaburra gdm[2878]: gdm_child_action: Aborting display 
> Glider.demo.room:2
> 
> 2.
> I switch virtual consoles often. I regularly switch between my GUI desktop to 
> a VC (quite likely I have six in use, some running screen).
> This works as epected on Debian/Sarge, but I have serious video corruption on 
> FC3: not always, but once it starts I can only clear it with a reboot. I't 
> clearly based on what is supposed to be on the screen; VC1 with the boot 
> messages has more than the others, and all respond to the keyboard.
> 
> I think (I have seen this before) the problem will not occur if I boot with 
> VGA=6, but I've not tried that yet.
> 
> I'm looking forward to any handy hints regarding any of these. To the list pls 
> so others can comment.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Cheers
> John Summerfield
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> 
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