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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:52:37 -0100
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From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
Subject: system unstable, how to make it stable again ?
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Assume your system got unstable due to some crashes, in such a way,
that sometimes it freezes hard (no response from the machine, no ping ...).
Assume further that some components (libs or apps or ...) are clobbered
and in the best case your apps just core-dump but in the worst case
some apps just malfunction and freeze the machine.
Assume further a kernel rebuild does not help.

Would a "make world" of the source-tree heal the system and make it
stable again ?

Malte Lance
malte@webmore.com