Seg faults

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Harry G wrote:
> I have a new system and did a fresh install of Libranet 2.8.1.  I am getting
> TONS of seg faults on almost all programs I am trying to run, including
> dpkg.
>
> I suspect a memory problem (Kensington 512meg).  I have been running a
> memtest for about 10 hours now, but nothing shows.

How many full passes have finished in those 10 hours?  The amount of time
is really irrelevant, its the number of passes that counts with memtest86.
If its already done at least two full passes without any error detection,
then odds are a different component is faulty.  My money would be on the
CPU, however i've also seen cases where the mobo or power supply were at
fault.  At any rate, you could try using CTCS (Cerberus) (search on
freshmeat to better pin down the source of the problem.

However, if this is a brand new box, i'd just return it to the vendor,
rather than wasting time trying to diagnose a hardware problem that they
should have caught in burn-in prior to the sale.

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