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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au>
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        freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Arrg!! sig 11
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> > > Signal 11's are really getting on my nerves! I'm starting to
> > > wish I didn't upgrade to 2.1r..
> > 
> > I *highly* suspect hardware failure, which didn't get tickled by 2.0 for
> > reasons of usage or whatever.
...
> > 
> > > cd to?? I used /usr/local/bin
> > > man -a * |& col -b > /tmp/junk.test
> 
> Because I was doing nothing else important I decided to give this a try 
> as well... I got a seg fault.  I have also been noticing some other 
> strange behaviour on my home machine when compiling.. things failing with 
> bus errors or seg faults that work fine when I do the same compile on my 
> work machine... the only difference between the two is really the way 
> FreeBSD was installed.  The home machine was installed over 2.0.5 as an 
> upgrade and the work machine was installed as a clean 2.1 install.  
> Could this be a cause of these random errors, or do I maybe have some 
> dodgy hardware in the home machine ?

I suspect dodgy hardware.  It shouldn't matter if the upgrade was done
(assuming the upgrade was done correctly ala. 'make world').  If the
latter was done, then *all* the system binaries except the kernel were
updated, and I assumed you also upgraded the kernel.


Nate