<pre><div class="moz-txt-sig"><div class="moz-txt-sig"><div class="moz-txt-sig">parta <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pritam.ghanghas@gmail.com"><pritam.ghanghas@gmail.com></a> wrote:<br></div></div></div>
</pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>I installed FC5 from cds and then ran 'yum update' to update my system. After<br><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>system update, my system has become unstable. Appliations start giving
<br><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>segmentation fault after running a while. If i restart my system, they run<br><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>again perfectly for a while and then segmentation fault pops up. Is there a
<br><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>way to figure out which package has made my system unstable.<br></pre></blockquote><pre><br>Random segfaults are usually memory (RAM) problems. Run memtest (it should<br>be an option on your installation media boot). When stuff runs OK for a
<br>while and then starts failing, it could be a overheated CPU (bad fan, etc).<br><div class="moz-txt-sig">-- <br>Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 <a href="http://counter.li.org">counter.li.org</a><br>
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Hi<br><br>Thanks for your response. I acted on this. I ran memtest but it returned no errors. I was using two memory modules from two different vendors. I removed on 256M module. Now I have single 512M module and memtested this one also. I monitored operating remprature and system load and they are perfectly normal. I also disabled swap to rule out any corruption in swap. Things have improved but I still get segfaults and application crashes ( frequeny of fauliures is very low now) Is there is anything else I can do to improve the state of my system. My system is not overclocked (one user has suggested that also).
</blockquote><div><br>pritam Ghanghas <br></div><br><div> </div><br></div></pre><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>pritam