From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 25 19:48:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA28253 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 May 1996 19:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wedge.its.utas.edu.au (wedge.its.utas.edu.au [131.217.10.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA28245 for ; Sat, 25 May 1996 19:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cp_nairn@localhost) by wedge.its.utas.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.6) id MAA26274; Sun, 26 May 1996 12:48:28 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 12:48:28 +1000 (EST) From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cp_nairn@wedge.its.utas.edu.au To: Nate Williams cc: Nate Williams , tcg@ime.net, freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Arrg!! sig 11 In-Reply-To: <199605260239.UAA22775@rocky.sri.MT.net> 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 Sat, 25 May 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > 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. The upgrade was done as a binary only upgrade using the upgrade from 2.0.5 option in the installation menu (I didn't have enough space to hold the entire 2.1 source for a make world). If its dodgy hardware do you have any hints as to what I should look for? The system seems to work OK for most general work, but just has these random failures when compiling... FYI its a pentium 100, 16MB RAM (70ns.. I guess this may be a problem) 2 WD IDE disks, 1 IDE CDROM, Diamond Stealth S3 868 DRAM PCI card... thanks, Carey ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================