What could the problem be?

[robb at bossleyfamily.com]

Just to give an update.  It does appear to be something that is going
wrong with the processor, motherboard, or hard drive setup.  I was able to
unzip the bz2 kernel with bunzip2 first, but in compiling, I got
segmentation faults.  It would run for a while without any errors, and
then a segmentation fault would occur.  I don't know if it has something
to do with the software raid that I have running, or if it is just a
hardware issue.  Any ways to check this problem and narrow it down?

> Robb Bossley wrote:
>> I have an older computer which I have utilized for the past couple of
>> years.  Recently, I reinstalled Linux on it for the Nth time, this time
>> utilizing the fact that I have two scsi drives and making all but one
>> partition part of a RAID array.
>>
>> My question is this.  I have tried to copy the latest kernel (2.6.6) in
>> bz2 form onto this computer, both from my usb storage device and from a
>> one time writeable disk.  Each copies just fine.  However, when I go to
>> untar it (tar -xjvf), I get a complaint that the headers?? for the bz2
>> format are corrupted.  The odd thing is that each time was from a
>> different download, and the downloads are fine because they work on
>> other computers when unzipped just fine.
>>
>> What would this indicate, and is there any way to fix the problem?  I
>> suspect a failing hard drive may be the culprit, but I'm not sure.  Is
>> there a good way to test the harddrives?  All I want to do is upgrade
>> the kernel.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Robb
>
> I had an Athlon 700 that developed this problem.  I suspect that it was
> the processor, or possibly the motherboard.  Everything else I had
> swapped out.  I could make the problem worse by doing processor
> intensive tasks such as ripping mp3s.  It also would fail while
> compiling the kernel and a simple restart of the compile would go
> further and so on until it was done.  I underclocked it and used it for
> another 6 months and it started happening again.  I sold it on ebay with
> full disclosure.
>
> Judd
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