[GRLUG] Kernel panic?

[Greg Folkert]

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 16:02 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Adam M. Erickson
> <erickson.adam.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 15:41 -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> >  >> I didn't have time to check it out besides rebooting to make sure it
> >  >> still can(it can), but my Kubuntu 8.04 desktop froze and the numlock
> >  >> and scrolllock kept flashing.  This happened a lot in my Kubuntu KDE4
> >  >> partition.  I just thought it was KDE 4, but this just happened in
> >  >> Kubuntu KDE3 which is my main OS and has got me worried.
> >  >>
> >
> >  When you do have the time it sounds like a hardware problem.
> >  Run Memtest86+ for a while. Sound like it could be a memory problem.
> 
> URL, to make sure you get the right one:
> http://www.memtest.org/
> 
> There's another one, called Memtest86, but it's ancient and buggy.

apt-get install memtest86+

pulls in the right one and makes it a selection from the boot prompt,
making it bootable as a selection.

memtest86 v3.4_2 is available in Debian.

memtest86+ v2.01 which is a fork of memtest86 v3.0 is also available in
Debian

They both work, but memtest86+ has support for the more advanced
hardware now a day.
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