From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 21:03:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA27746 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haus.efn.org (haus.efn.org [198.68.17.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA27740 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garcia.efn.org (j_mini@garcia.efn.org [198.68.17.5]) by haus.efn.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA29930; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:06:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from j_mini@localhost) by garcia.efn.org (8.7.4/8.7.2) id VAA11226; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:02:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Mini To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xterm error.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Jonathan Mini wrote: > > > I can't seem to get Xterm to run over X on my 386DX/40. It dies of sig > > 11's every time I try and run it over X. my .xsession-errors just says > > "Memory error" (my system log on ttyv0 gives me a more detailed response > > of " /kernel: pid (xterm) uid 0: exited on > > signal 11." > > Hm. I think I'd believe the system in this regard and guess that you have > some bad memory and/or processor cache. Do you have problems with other > programs mysteriously sig-11'ing, especially under load? I haven't had _any_ other problems with the system... other than with ppp's configuration, but that's a different story. > Try running X (if you can keep it up) then run a bunch of user processes > (like compiling the kernel). If the kernel compile barfs then replace > your memory. X itself runs fine, so does everything else. just not xterm. I can run as many copies of such utulities like xrocks and xclock and xearth, etc, etc even some mroe complex ones. I compiled the kernel for this machine _on_ this machine and it had no problems -- I know it used all of my 20megs too, because I "time"'d it and it said I swapped 3 times. ;) Therefore all memory was accessed at least once. Also : if it were memory, I'd have problems with other systems -- cache is turned off right now and it still does it. The problem I'm having is _NOT_ intermittent. It happens every time. xterm doesn't even prep the server. It just sig 11's. > You could have just asked John-Mark and he would have forwarded it to me. I did ask him first -- he gave me the same repsone you did. ;) Jon Mini, j_mini@efn.org, mini@4j.lane.edu GAMMA Development Team -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...." little.blue.engine:Reality Protection Fault. (core dumped) --------------------------------------------------------------------------