Package managers gone haywire! yum, apt, rpm: pam is totally borked

[Claude Jones]

On Mon June 18 2007 13:40:19 Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Running w2k successfully on the same machine is no sufficient
> test to rule out that the RAM is  bad. You would not be the
> first person to run into that trap. If it isn't RPM that is
> hit hard by  hardware instability, it's a different
> application that creates a memory usage/load pattern which
> exposes the hardware problems. GCC, for example. Many users
> have seen spontaneous segmentation faults and believed them to
> be bugs in the compiler, even when subsequent runs of Make
> continued for a while.
>
> A lot of problems with RPM are due to hardware problems or
> attempts at disturbing RPM at run-time.

OK - point taken - I'll run memtest for a few hours after I get 
home tonight, and see if it picks up anything

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA