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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Matthias Andree wrote:

> 2. at some point in time, usually around "Remaking all devices", the
>    machine throws a handful of segfaults and boom. I'm unsure whether
>    this might be the hardware, it's an old Cyrix MII/233 (PR300) Super7
>    CPU in a VIA MVP3 board (PCChips M577), 32 MB PC66 + 64 MB PC100 RAM
>    (66 MHz FSB), nothing "server-class", but it seems to be fine even
>    under load with SuSE Linux 8.1 or 8.2 (dual-boot).

This tends to imply hardware issues.  What kind of storage?

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