On Monday 02 December 2002 08:12, Nik wrote:
Well, Nik, it was in the back of my mind because it's far-fetched. It could be an overheating issue. What temperature is your CPU/case/hard drive? I've had my old PC restart at the most random times because the CPU fan stopped working...
It could well be this, although I do have another problem which could indicate (to me) a dodgy motherboard or psu
Oh, back to oggenc. Trying logging through strace (you might have to
install this from the SuSE CDs). Command to run:
strace -o oggenc_log.txt oggenc some_file.wav
...if oggenc_log.txt exists after your reboot, post it back. Maybe it has something interesting.
When using oggenc via strace as above, most of the time oggenc seg faults, and only sometimes freezes the whole system. Using plain oggenc causes the system to freeze all the time. I won't post the whole log, just the last bit:
[snip]
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
The problem never occurs at the same point in the encoding - indicates a hardware fault?
Right now I'm thinking it's bad RAM. Do you have three sticks of RAM in that machine? If so, try removing one (some motherboards have problems with >2 sticks). Take out another stick as well, just to see. Move the RAM around from slot-to-slot, to see if there's a difference. BTW have you tried running some CPU intensive application over an extended period? http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/FAH3Console-Linux.exe ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/setiathome/setiathome-3.03.i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1.tar
The other problem which I am having is this: If I either rip from an audio cd or copy data off a cd, my serial ports get slow. eg If I rip the songs off a cd, the pointer has a mind of its own (this is a serial mouse btw), and my internet connection halts, although it remains up - and once the ripping has stopped, the connection picks up again. I access the internet via an external isdn TA, connected to a serial port. AFAIKT, the usb and parallel ports remain ok, its just the serial ports that are affected. So, would I be right in thinking that this indicates a very dodgy mb (elitegroup k7s5a) or a dodgy psu or something else?
This I have no idea how to solve. The first thing that comes to mind is some messed-up setting in the BIOS. Sorry couldn't be of more help. -- Karol Pietrzak <noodlez84@earthlink.net> PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0