Problems and suggestions with hardware and Fedora Core 4

["Bargel Jazat" <jbargel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the suggestions about the problem on fc4.

- Guus: I ran a memtest and YES: I found some errors. So I guess I have to 
throw away
 my memory dimms (they are only 2 year old) and get new ones.
 *** So this might be the answer to this strange malfunctioning ! ***

- Axl: thanks, I will run the tests you suggested if the problem persists
 (bad blocks,  check your dmesg and /var/log/messages for errors.
  If there is a bad IDE CABLE then it would throw lots of errors in the 
dmesg.)

- Adam: I ran chkrootkit and found no problems. I have not run any virus 
check yet. Have
 viruses for Linux been reported?

 About the diff: the files normally had different content but same size. If 
I do further
 tests and the problem is still there I will post the diffs.

 I did the mirror with rsync -auv --delete <source> <target>

 About rsync: I think there is some problem with rsync or scp. I still have 
to find more information
 on the net. Anyway, I have a problem on another system when trying to copy 
a cd image from
 a Linux account to my local Windows machine (that has cygwin). The file 
transfer stalls at 99%
 and I have to restart it. So maybe this is another problem that affects 
scp and rsync and
 I have to sort this out separately. At the moment I always transfer md5 
sums of my files and
 check them after the transfer, but this check should be performed by scp, 
I guess.

 About fc4 being unstable: I installed it in June (or beginning of July, 
can't remember exactly).
 Then I did a very stupid move (I guess): did a blind upgrade with apt-get. 
The system became
 unstable and I had to reinstall fc4 on another partition. I am not yet 
finished getting all the previous
 configuration on the new partition.
 Anyway now I have fc4 with the packages that are distributed on the fc4 cd 
roms.

 Maybe fc4 is not stable enough (yet) for a production environment?
 I want to run a server for a web application I am writing. Would you 
suggest me to move
 back to fc3 or fc2?
 I have also considered moving to Debian (uses older versions of packages 
and kernel and
 should be more stable).

Giorgio


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