From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 8:38:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dnsp1.sce.com (dnsp1.sce.com [155.13.48.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506CD37B6F4 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 08:38:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ryan.Gamo@sce.com) Received: from D058661.sce.com (D058661.sce.com [155.13.167.39]) by dnsp1.sce.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/5.5.5) with ESMTP id IAA27570 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 08:38:24 -0700 From: Ryan.Gamo@sce.com Received: from go2ntswpr01.sce.com (D068976.sce.com [155.13.76.17]) by D058661.sce.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.7) with ESMTP id IAA33358 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 08:38:24 -0700 Received: from go2ntdomc01.sce.com (unverified) by go2ntswpr01.sce.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 08:38:14 -0700 Subject: Re: signal 11 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.2a (Intl) 23 November 1999 Message-Id: Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 08:38:14 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on GO2NTDOMC01/SVR/SCE/EIX(Release 5.0.1a (Intl)|17 August 1999) at 05/17/2000 08:38:14 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry... forgot to send to list. Ryan M. Gamo IT Application Services - TDBU Phone: (626)308-6696 * Fax: (626)308-6390 Pager: (888)586-7992 PIN 318489 "KNOW YOUR ROLE" ----- Forwarded by Ryan Gamo/SCE/EIX on 05/17/2000 08:37 AM ----- Ryan Gamo To: Richard Dybiec 05/17/2000 cc: 08:36 AM Subject: Re: signal 11(Document link: Ryan Gamo) Signal definitions are generally under the signal.h file. Signal 11 is a segmentation fault (page fault). I wish I was at my BSD box so I could tell you the exact directory. On our AIX host here at work it's under : /src/bos/kernel/sys/signal.h Did you allot enough paging space on the swap partition? How much RAM do you have? Usually segfaults result when the OS (or an application therein) tries to access an area of memory that is already allocated. Whether stack, heap, or virtual. So check those two elements and you'll be looking in the right direction. Ryan M. Gamo IT Application Services - TDBU Phone: (626)308-6696 * Fax: (626)308-6390 Pager: (888)586-7992 PIN 318489 "KNOW YOUR ROLE" Richard Dybiec To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent by: cc: owner-freebsd-questions@F Subject: signal 11 reeBSD.ORG 05/17/2000 03:09 AM I, not long ago, tried to upgrade from 3.3FreeBSD to 3.4FreeBSD; I put myself in a position such that I would have to do a complete reinstall, so I thought that I may as well upgrade. As a brief background, there is no other operating system on this computer and my original FBSD installation used the default file system layout; by the time I learned that a / filesystem of 40 meg is too small, I was getting overflow messages that I couldn't (with my level of experience) get rid of. Simply killing processes didn't work, hence the need to reinstall. I installed from the 3.4 CD set. The first time I installed, I created a 80 meg / file system (on a 4.2 gig disk), decided that even that might not take into account future upgrades, so... another install. This generated a 'signal 11' When I checked the log, I only found the rather useless message, 'signal 11, that's bad'. Sad to say, I've gone back to Linux (hopefully temporarily). Since there is no other OS on this system, I am at a loss. What's a signal 11? What went wrong? How can I proceed from here? Should I remake the 2 install disks? On a related subject, 3.4 to 4.0 is a big jump; Is the move to 4.0 worth it for essentially a single user? My major concern is stability; what is the current 'stable' version? My LAN has only 3 machines; I work back and forth between them. Thanks for taking the time to read through this, Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message