yum broken

[Spencer Kellis]

Ed -

Thanks for the insight and criticism.

I hope my reply was not construed negatively. My effort to engage in
technical conversations over email was a little naive perhaps; I was simply
trying to counter the suggestion and find out a little more. As you suggest,
I certainly do not have a lifetime's experience with linux. As I did not
know the relationship between memory, linux, and segfaults, I know now
because I asked. :)

I'll be running memtest86 as you suggested, and I'll post the results.

Thanks,
Spencer

On 10/5/05, Edward Dekkers <edward at tripled.iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> Spencer Kellis wrote:
> > I would have thought bad memory would be manifest in many more ways than
> > simply yum not working. My system is otherwise stable, and has been up
> > and operating for a week currently without any other issues. I
> > appreciate the idea though, and if you still consider bad memory an
> > option I'd be interested to hear it (and how & why).
> >
> > If there are any other ideas out there, even pointers to what to look
> > through for possible problems on my own, I'd appreciate it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Spencer
>
> The reason he would have suggested it is because it's probably the #1
> cause of segmentation faults and signal 11 faults on Linux, together
> with bad hardware. This isn't Windows and you aren't in Kansas any more.
>
> Linux is super stable and if it crashes, it is more than likely not
> actually Linux's fault.
>
> Trust the reply to your post - run a memtest86 overnight on full testing
> suite, don't question a perfectly reasonable response. I think the
> person who replied has been around Linux longer than you from what I can
> see.
>
> If the memory tests OK, fine, we'll look at something else, but you
> really need to eliminate it 100% sure before we go on.
>
> Regards,
> Ed.
>
>
>


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