From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HpsbW-0006dc-14 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 21:06:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4KL4vXD014453; Sun, 20 May 2007 21:04:57 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4KL0VuV009718 for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 21:00:31 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so832680ugc for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 14:00:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OzXtb8iaJuqrYwBp27UU6NS/j4ttNdS1KF7fJch4tPmdGwDUlnBRiBZceYa68nfErugTASCK5B/Pb6V1Ap2eymSfnohjj3tXAIOpw4xiD1Ud259OYdmS4nKX1VlnO1cRqAfGvsPhbUyBxvKHcQwi1HqRqJU6ZkX3lwV31uMA3X8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=R1IPu4t5/tJz7Y+oo6MkOkQ9Pl//r/EirUHoJQVN4nDXv5dSgW/wdvYgdeRb4jA4eGRmu0+hF2BTxxjwv7V8p5LC5kYILtoG5RfS+y+R0KZX31ydqhgXfUxBz4Vw51vUR2OCWVXnEq+7tVoACl/oyCjTT1l24CZ4AJth4aA4ewU= Received: by 10.82.138.6 with SMTP id l6mr7329525bud.1179694830079; Sun, 20 May 2007 14:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? ( [87.105.0.50]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id j9sm16043126mue.2007.05.20.14.00.29; Sun, 20 May 2007 14:00:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4650D361.9000009@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 23:01:53 +0000 From: Marek Miller User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070504) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour. References: <464CB912.7060107@gmail.com> <464CEDD3.6030203@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <464CEDD3.6030203@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l4KL4vXU014453 X-Archives-Salt: 362b46f8-85d6-4e46-a397-11543c217328 X-Archives-Hash: 541b1a12f3ca64a301013c1b9ffef8e5 b.n. napisa=B3(a): > Marek Miller ha scritto: > >> I really don't know, what's happened: the system hangs >> every 15 minutes, most of applications don't work >> properly (emerge, firefox etc.) and put out > fault>. > > >> Several times I catch a message on the console, but >> cannot read the whole thing, because of system reboot >> (It was something like: BUG cannot handle kernel NULL >> pointer...) >> >> Does anybody suspect, what's the problem? > > > To me, seems a lot like an hardware problem. Bad RAM or bad=20 > motherboard, possibly a hidden defect triggered by a reboot too much... > > Do the segfaults happen randomly or are they reproducible? (that is,=20 > if you open a given app, does it ALWAYS segfault or it OFTEN segfault?=20 > and does it happen immediately or after a random amount of time?) > > m. Yes, it is a RAM defect. Is there a way to define upper limit of RAM, so=20 I can perform some back-up before I take my laptop to a warranty service? --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list