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

[Norman Walsh]

On 12/15/06, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> In the last few years, I've had 3 machines fail inexplicably and in the
> weirdest ways. Every one of them turned out to be caused by bad RAM.
> Note that memtest really does need to run overnight, ideally 24 hours
> before you have a clean bill of health. Usually, errors pop up much
> sooner than that, but by no means always.

Just for closure: I got another crash running off the Edgy CD so I
went back and tried to recover from the Recovery CDs. The machine
crashed twice, always in the same way, during two successive attempts
to restore it.

Armed with that data, I was able to persuade the repair folks to take
it back. Hopefully they'll find and correct the problem. But I won't
know until after I get back from my holidays :-(

--norm