> This 486 has been running linux maybe 1.5 year now without any
[...]
> After boot it worked for some minutes and then it stopped again. No
> mouse, no keyboard, no answer to pings, nothing in syslog. Both times
> I was doing something with the mouse just when it hung.
I'm experiencing some crashes on a P5-133, 40MB, Triton II HX EIDE,
3c509, on 2.0.27. Nothing on syslog, time to press reset.
Everything works until I start getting Segmentation Fault during a
compile, then I get Segmentation Fault at *every* shell command.
Sometimes sync works, sometimes hangs. I can still exit from the
programs (or navigate a couple of menus) but I can't run new ones.
I don't use X on that machine.
The crashes occur once every some days. The machine is in use 7/8
hours a day. It serves some NFS clients and is used to compile.
I've run memtest86 (from hwtools*.deb but it crashes on that
motherboard (well, it reboots as soon as it's run). The ram
seems good when tested on other systems, though.
Could this be hardware related?
> Has anyone seen something similar? I guess the swap partition
> was somehow corrupted.
I'll try it.
All The Best,
Marco
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