on 1/3/2008 7:53 AM Jean-Yves Avenard spake the following:
Hi
On Jan 4, 2008 2:43 AM, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
Odd. Have you checked the memory with memtest?
I haven't. Simply because it runs so well under Windows.
But I had plan to buy new RAM tomorrow, they are so cheap these days...
Which version of Windows? This shouldn't make a difference, but it's been known to cause issues.
Windows XP SP2.
Anything special happen on that day? Windows updates, linux updates, application updates etc?
Well, the user told me that no he didn't. Reason being linux had just been fully re-installed (due to the same crash), and Windows had been running for several weeks no reason to upgrade, and people are instructed no to install any updates.
Windows is installed with the extfs driver.
Now thinking about it, I did modify the sudoers list from Windows by editing /etc/sudoers.
Try fixing that, you could dos2unix that file, or restore from another machine.
I actually did think that the issue could be with the Intel RAID not being handled properly and that somehow Windows wrote something on the ext partition that made the linux driver crash.
It's very annoying. Jean-Yves