From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-97927-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1MPRNC-0004cm-HM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:27:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83A01E044E; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:27:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.242]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6997EE044E for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:27:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so2501727and.1 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:27:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=a3RQqMPgjTFAw8eRZkR718pHTCkQpHP8NbdgIfvzsBI=; b=qwtwnq7qRA2ys4ItCvMc4F3xyXQ40UHwErtPB+Vv/9Vywk2yWRYAbswdlDvNa7lkti +NocZrrf9SHshwqiQNBAJ3p+5dvPWukQIzOUBn4e/SB+S9FnugWUKhBsNhA/RAYhLNh8 Xd5YTUbSJZBpU9J/951782GqKYaiMMy60/5ik= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=q2LpUtTwKOoAx2ZxmSBsy84lrkb9ShYWV0jgjs1BZdQbc5ev08J+zeSUmZIaAi8i7B OYH40dCKIlUTHDJLK6SNfWF8UWW7aFu4p0/SWFNWHsm1OULmVaLlyL+IQzzheRA0ATTc bodo2dY0tiWF37qlAcsHWDrhFEOhCMw3hyCjc= Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.125.15 with SMTP id x15mr3540815anc.73.1247275649085; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:27:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <h38noq$orf$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <83fxd4nkf9.fsf@gmail.com> <h38noq$orf$1@ger.gmane.org> From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:27:09 +1000 Message-ID: <7bef1f890907101827x156a3521h2f7e9e1e67548e0e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for / To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 31570711-7ce9-45dc-8d77-0f2da9bfe097 X-Archives-Hash: 633e0421ee0ce2d991f7b2d79b721b5b Thank you, Walt. I live on a tropical island. I've been going through about all the suggestions people have made and all the ideas I can think of. Changed NICs. Recompiled kernel with better configuration. Uptime 1:39 An improvement from earlier today. I've edited /etc/fstab. But I'll leave grub alone until I'm sure what to d= o. Thank you again. Alan On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:52 AM, walt<w41ter@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/10/2009 05:16 PM, lngndvs@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I recently reported that I am suffering random reboots. =A0I have now >> discovered an inconsistency in the reporting of the mount point of the >> root directory of my Gentoo install... > > No, the two are not related. =A0In my experience, anything that goes wron= g > at random times is related to hardware flakiness -- usually because some > piece of the hardware is running too hot. > > I happen to live in a very hot, dry, dusty place. =A0I see random flakine= ss > just about every summer, which I fix by blowing the thick layer of dust > off of the CPU heatsink and RAM chips and the power supply with a can of > compressed gas. =A0Of course, I also check that all of the fans in the ca= se > are still working. > > Do you know about memtest86? =A0If you have random nastiness you should r= un > memtest86 at least overnight to see if your RAM is becoming senile ;o) > > I have suggestions about grub also, but, to be coherent about them I need > to be much more awake than I am now. =A0I'll check back tomorrow. > > >