[KLUG Members] Kernel Bug 2??

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>I'm running slack 8 on a:
>dual Tyan mobo,
>512mb ram(2x256 micron pc133),
>1x7.5GB-ext2fs =/
>2x40gb-rieserfs =home and groups
>2.4.5 kernel

Your /home is riserfs?!  You are a brave man.

>I would like it to be a samba file server maybe a 
>ltsp server. There are too many goodies in the 

LTSP good.

>stock kernel. So I wanted to make a kernel with 
>only the goodies I need.
>make dep -j 5 ; make clean ; make bzImage -j 
>5 ; make modules -j 5 ; make modules_install  
>about half-way through make dep it says kernel 
>paging request fault.

After the fault what does "free -t" day?  Anything cool in dmesg?

>I put NT on it first and it blue screened too 
>much. So i said what the hey lets do it up right.
>I'm beginning to think hardware. Maybe 
>memory??  Any ideas?

Let the box bake under memtest for a day.  You may have flaky RAM.  In
my limited experience I have found Tyan boards to be more sensitive to
memory issues than most.  They are nice boards however.   

memtest is on the BS-Ware CD I think,  or you can download it.