[ltp] Re: Problems with Ubuntu 2.6.17-10?

[Richard Neill]

Norman Walsh wrote:
> On 12/14/06, Bernard Tremblay <imaginasys@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> If you want to know what was changed/installed look in the dpkg log:
> 
> Thanks. I booted off a Knoppix 5.0.1 CD and was working my way through
> some web searching and IRC when it crashed in exactly the same way. So
> now I'm really concerned.
> 
> IBM tech support suggested that I get the bootable PC Doctor ISO image
> and try that.
> Alas, it runs all the diagnostics without problems.
> 
> So I'm faced with either a problem that exists in the Knoppix image
> from June and
> the Ubuntu install from yesterday (but not in any install from any
> previous Ubuntu release) or a hardware problem exercised by Linux but
> not identified by the diagnostic tool.
> 


Have you tried checking your RAM?  That would explain some of the 
symptoms, and why DOS doesn't find the error (since it probably never 
tries to use much of your memory).  Run memtest for 24 hours.

Richard