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  1. Bug #7168
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 7168

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:04:03 +0200
From: Javier =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez-Sanguino_Pe=F1a?= <email address hidden>
To: Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, Horms <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#255175: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686: system crash due to kernel bug

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 08:52:37AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> He's talking about the kind of hardware problems that cause the kernel to
> crash (such as unreliable RAM). Unless you are using error-correcting
> memory (and sometimes, even if you are), the kernel can't automatically
> detect and report this condition.

Yes, I imagined this after googling for the BUG messages. In order to
discard RAM issues I've been running memtest for a while, without any
errors. I'll plug in a bootable cd and see if memtest fails.
If I find any hardware issues I'll report it here.

Regards

Javier