Fedora 6 strange hangs

AJ Mitchelson aj.mitchelson at btconnect.com
Tue Apr 17 20:05:28 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:31 -0400, Emanuel Machado wrote:
> Dunno if it helps, I installed FC 6 in a machine with 4 GB and it started
> behaving erratically. It felt better after I removed a couple of GB. 
> 
> Emanuel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Graziano [mailto:al.graziano at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:09 PM
> Cc: For users of Fedora
> Subject: Re: Fedora 6 strange hangs
> 
> Maybe, but I should still be able to trace it. I just want to 
> troubleshoot the problem and identify the root cause
> 
> Any idea on what to look for/at
> 
> Thanks
> Al
> 
> Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:23:45 +0100
> > Al Graziano <al.graziano at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> I have recently update my Fedora 6 to the latest kernel etc. and I am 
> >> now experiencing some very strange, apparently random behaviour
> >>     
> >
> > That could be a power or power supply problem that's unrelated to Fedora.
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> 

I think the memory suggestion could be a red-herring I've been running a
4GB memory machine for months here with no problems at all, the only
difference maybe is this is a AMD dual core 64bit machine, however to be
sure you could run memtest86 overnight to see.

HTH

AJ




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