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From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:27:09 +1000
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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.
>
>
>