on 1/3/2008 7:53 AM Jean-Yves Avenard spake the following: > Hi > > On Jan 4, 2008 2:43 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at 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 -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!