Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (130 mails)

[Matt Gibson <gothick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 17 December 2002 21:51, PL O'Smith wrote:
> I think you meant for this to go back to the list, so I thought I would
> pass it along with some additions.  I think Andrei has changed out the

Oops!  Absolutely right, of course.

> changing with memtest?  The fact that WinXP runs ok on the machine is
> not much of a test of the hardware or indication that the hardware is
> ok as Andrei seems to think.

I agree.  The machine I had with the dodgy motherboard was running NT 4.0 dual 
boot with Linux, and only compiling the kernel under Linux showed up the 
problem.  I saw maybe two bluescreens under NT for the couple of months I had 
that motherboard, which was no more than average for NT4 *grin*.

The person who changed the motherboard in the end was a friend of mine who was 
in the PC retail business at the time; he used to use gcc as a stress test 
for new machines.

> If the install is an upgrade over a previous version of SuSE I am
> suspecting that there might be several gcc 2.95 programs still hanging
> around.  If the install is new though, then my thoughts run to bad
> hardware or  bad install/updates since then.  If with a fresh install
> you have no problems, but after your updates you do, it's pretty likely
> something has gotten out of sync.

Yah.  As I said before, I'm definitely thinking hardware myself, simply 
because these are random crashes -- if gcc is broken in terms of 
installation, I'd think it would normally die at the same place every time.

Cheers,

Matt

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