On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Michael Hennebry wrote: >> The computer is a DakTEch Freedom 4 P4 DDR System. >> The system board is a D865GBFL w/LAN,audio & video >> Processor Intel Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz 800FSB >> I got it in 2006. > <snip> > It is getting long in the tooth. (I'm about to replace my m/b of the same > vintage at home.) Ouch. $200+ before installation, and I'd still have a computer some Linuxes don't like. On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Hennebry > <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: >>>> Keep an eagle eye on dmesg and the logs. If you can, bring >>> machine down and run memtest86 for a few hours (say, when you go to >> >> I've run the memory test that comes with the Fedora 13 install disk. >> My computer's memory got a clean bill of health. > > I've seen a machine where it took 3+ days of running memtest86 to > catch the error. And then after replacing the RAM, the machine still Clean bill from memtest86 running overnight. The memory is the newest part of the computer. After rebooting, it crapped out twice in half an hour. After that, I went back to F14. On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > K. Anything interesting from smartctl? Have you used bonnie++ > before? I think if you run it in a window/screen and then keep an eye > on dmesg you might find issues on the HD. Hadn't heard of either until now. Looked up smartctl: [root at localhost ~]# smartctl -H /dev/sdb smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Please note the following marginal Attributes: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 068 044 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 32 (0 34 33 25) [root at localhost ~]# smartctl --test=short /dev/sdb smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === Sending command: "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode". Drive command "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful. Testing has begun. Please wait 1 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Tue Nov 26 10:02:10 2013 Use smartctl -X to abort test. [root at localhost ~]# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 44279 - # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 44279 - -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, whom I teach not to run with scissors, that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily