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 ) id 1MPQpz-0000ip-7S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:53:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DC8AE03E6; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F17E03E6 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8314C66A35 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:53:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.059 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.059 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.460, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ti2-Ey6Fv3ea for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF9A66C0B for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MPQpj-0002WG-4f for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:52:55 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-182-209.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.182.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:52:55 +0000 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-182-209.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:52:55 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for / Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:52:36 -0700 Message-ID: References: <83fxd4nkf9.fsf@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-182-209.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090710 Shredder/3.0b3pre In-Reply-To: <83fxd4nkf9.fsf@gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 30120344-84ee-4ff4-9d7c-faa6ff58f718 X-Archives-Hash: 93c3d167825332fcbadb77b9b6e27fd7 On 07/10/2009 05:16 PM, lngndvs@gmail.com wrote: > I recently reported that I am suffering random reboots. I 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. In my experience, anything that goes wrong 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. I see random flakiness 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. Of course, I also check that all of the fans in the case are still working. Do you know about memtest86? If you have random nastiness you should run 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. I'll check back tomorrow.