Hi, just wondering if anybody could shed some light on a few issue's i've been having with running linux on my Peg2.

1) When running debian sarge and the system has a high workload it freezes with no error messages in the log, must reboot, also when compiling a kernel i get various segfault's but simply trying it again works fine for a couple of minutes and then it segfaults somewhere else.

2) I had gentoo installed for about a day all working fine, switched on the day after and my reiserfs partition had become so corrupted that it couldn't be repaired.

Any help on these matters would be grately apreciated.

My spec is

PegasosII(2) 1Ghz G4
512MB Twinmos DDR Ram
Radeon 7200 AGP
Maxtor 120GB HDD
Pioneer DVD-R

Thanks

1., Are you sure that your memory module is correct & bug-free?
2., What Firmware version do you have?
3., What kernel version are you running? (2.4 and early 2.6.x kernels are known to corrupt the memory, due to conflicts with the IDE controller mappings, when using more than 256MB esp. with older Firmwares).

Try use mem=256M argument when booting and see if it's everything ok.

Thanks for the tips

1) Memory passes MOS memtest ok and i have tried a couple of other dimm's it's strange that 1x512MB works but 2x512MB doesn't, if anybody has any ideas about this???

2) Firmware is 1.2

3) on Debian it's 2.6.8
on gentoo it was 2.6.11.5

You shouldn't use ReiserFS. It is very unstable on non-x86 arches. The developers refuse to acknowledge it, but still we constantly get reports about corrupt filesystems. :(

Personally I prefer XFS. It has all the features of ext3 and also supports storing metadata for files directories, not to forget the fact it has years and years of testing from Irix.

Well, i used ReiserFS (with Debian) for a few months on PPC. Not on Pegasos, but on my OldWorld PowerMacs, but i had no troubles with it. Both with SCSI and IDE harddisks. Maybe it's only releated to Pegasos, or the rest of the PPC machines also suffer from it?

No, it happens on Apple hardware too. It is not guaranteed to fail, a lot of people do not have any problems with it, but in some cases it does and we have no idea why.
You are safer chosing a different filesystem for now.

[ Edited by dholm on 2005/5/26 16:32 ]

well i've tried xfs, and the filesystem seams to be ok now, but i'm still getting internal compiler errors when trying to compile the kernel, no i'm not using a kernel with preemptive compiled in, i'm using fully supported hardware, my memory is on the supported list and passes every single memory test i run.

I dunno i'm starting to get fed up with my peg now...............

shedroveme2

Check your CPU fan and CPU card - could be a heat related issue or card not fully inserted..


magnetic

reseated the cpu, doesn't appear to be any heat issue's swapped the harddrive for a brand new one, and the same problem again......