[Xastir] Xastir shutting down prematurely

[David A. Ranch]

Along the diagnostics route, I've found computers in the past that could 
pass Memtest but would continue to intermittently fail.  The only 100% 
test I've found for testing the stability of a computer is... compiling 
a linux kernel.  It takes a long time, it uses heavy disk I/O, memory 
I/O, can create load on multi-core CPUs, etc.  I have a Bash script that 
I can send the to the group that is written specifically to make kernel 
compiling automatic, supports looping, logging, etc. to specifically 
find bad hardware.

If anyone's interested, let me know... an old version of it is available 
here:

http://www.trinityos.com/LINUX/TrinityOS-security/usr/src/kernel/build-it.trinityos

--David

>
> You might run a memtest for a while to see if it's truly a memory 
> problem.  That's the quickest way to figure it out.  If it's not in 
> your boot menu, many of the install DVD's have it.
>