AMD64 machine stability problem

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 01:05:45PM +0800, David Xu wrote:
> Eric Anholt wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 11:50 +0800, David Xu wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Did anyone encounter stability problem ? I am running X11 on it,
> >>and sometimes it suddenly reboots. I hope it is not a mobo problem.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I'd been very stable on 5.3-stable on AMD64, unless I was using gdb, in
> >which case I would get reboots pretty regularly as of a couple of months
> >ago.  Never managed to reproduce that in console, but didn't try too
> >hard.  However, I just updated to 6-current, and within 5 minutes got a
> >reboot.
> >
> >Note that there has been some discussion that panicing while in X may
> >equal reboot these days, though I don't understand why that would be.
> >
> > 
> >
> Now, I can always reproduce it:
> just run "find /usr/src " in gnome termimal, it will reboots in five 
> seconds.

Sounds like hardware (e.g. bad power supply, etc).

Kris
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