[14:19] <nathwill> morning early birds!
[16:27] <c_smith> morning, nathwill
[16:27]  * c_smith will brb, needs to restart his desktop for some updates
[16:27] <nathwill> :)
[16:59] <c_smith> back, took longer than it should have since I decided to do some testing on the RAM I bought, memtest told me there were some error.
[16:59] <c_smith> *errors
[17:11] <nathwill> interesting
[17:25] <c_smith> not sure which stick would have the errors, as I saw no indication to that. or whether it's the connection.
[17:25] <c_smith> and joy, I deleted my Documents folder......
[17:25] <nathwill> well, you can pull them sequentially and re-run memtest...
[17:25] <nathwill> hrm
[17:26] <c_smith> true. I still have my Laptop operable,
[17:26] <c_smith> the documents folder was deleted on my laptop
[17:26] <c_smith> need to pay more attention to what I delete.
[17:27] <c_smith> worth a try. I'll try sequentially testing one stick.
[17:27] <c_smith> at a time that is.
[17:36] <c_smith> ok, running Memtest on the first stick.
[17:36] <c_smith> think for this I can spare my mouse and use it for my laptop
[17:51] <bkerensa> such a busy week
[17:52] <bkerensa> DocFreeze is Thursday and were no where close to done so were requesting a exception from the release team which is also pushing the translations behind schedule
[17:58] <c_smith> sounds busy. I'd offer to help if I wasn't preoccupied with other stuff and I knew what to do there.
[18:50] <c_smith> so, after testing 2 of my RAM sticks, no errors, testing the third, which is at 77% complete total, there are no errors, I'm guessing that it might have been that 2 of them weren't in all the way (my doing) so if this stick proves to have no errors, I'm going to insert all 3 again and run Memtest86 then, after making sure all 3 are in correctly.
[19:00] <nathwill> good times
[20:07] <bkerensa> nathwill: I sent out a e-mail regarding the LoCo Council's update approval guidelines if you have any feedback
[20:12] <nathwill> k, i'll check it out
[20:12] <nathwill> thanks bkerensa
[20:20] <bkerensa> nathwill: finn should be here soon :D
[20:21] <bkerensa> sending him back to Washington with some Ubuntu swag and other stuff so he can go convert the Microsoft folks
[20:24] <nathwill> hehe
[20:52] <c_smith> yay for kernel problems........
[21:21] <bkerensa> c_smith: what kernel problems?
[21:24] <c_smith> my desktop, after a few minutes of being booted up, has either a kernel panic, or dumps what looks to be a kernel crash dump to my screen.
[21:26] <bkerensa> c_smith: Have you reported this?
[21:26] <bkerensa> c_smith: Have you reported this?
[21:27] <c_smith> I'm currently trying to figure out if this is due to the 3 1GB RAM sticks, or the kernel itself.
[21:28] <c_smith> like I was going to say, it only started doing this when I looked in the tower after having issues with them, and found they hadn't been inserted all the way, and I fixed that.
[21:29] <c_smith> my laptop is unaffected.
[21:30] <c_smith> but even if this was a bug, I couldn't get the new fix into my desktop, as it doesn't last long enough to get a new kernel version onto it.
[21:30] <c_smith> or any update, for that matter. atm, all it's good for is a really expensive RAM tester.
[21:57] <bkerensa> c_smith: have you tried installing from the alternate iso?
[21:57] <bkerensa> are you sure your using the right iso for your hardware?
[22:11] <sbeattie> c_smith: also, what release are you trying this with?
[22:27] <c_smith> yaaaay
[22:27] <c_smith> my laptop no long gives me kernel problems! :D
[22:27] <c_smith> *desktop, not laptop
[22:27] <c_smith> bkerensa, care to hear how I fixed it?
[22:27] <bkerensa> c_smith: sure
[22:28] <c_smith> bkerensa, I simply removed one stick of RAM, seems the kernel doesn't like 3 slots being taken up.
[22:28] <c_smith> and that's the  amount of slots total.
[22:28] <bkerensa> c_smith: What architecture are you using?
[22:28] <c_smith> strange, but that's how it goes I guess.
[22:28] <bkerensa> are you certain one stick was not bad?
[22:29] <c_smith> i386, x86, i686, however you want to label the arch
[22:29] <bkerensa> are you certain the extra slot was not defective?
[22:29] <bkerensa> c_smith: what capacity was the total ram if you had all sticks in?
[22:29] <c_smith> and I'm sure the stick is good, not sure about the slot, but memtest86 gave me no errors on the ram.
[22:29] <c_smith> the max is what i had, 3 GB.
[22:30] <c_smith> for memtest86. I ran all 9 tests once on each stick individually, then again with all 3 put in.
[22:30] <c_smith> no errors both times.
[22:30] <c_smith> *both ways
[22:31] <c_smith> I might consult with someone to see what might have happened. though.
[22:32] <c_smith> bkerensa, for the kernel probs, I can tell you that it had khelper. and similarly named mentions in it.
[22:32] <c_smith> well. I'm gonna leave this running to see if anything else pops up.
[22:34] <bkerensa> c_smith: you might consult #ubuntu-kernel
[22:59] <c_smith> bkerensa, thanks
[23:18] <nathwill> pae kernel?