From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 07:34:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28880 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 07:34:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bvainc.com (mail1.bvainc.com [208.145.185.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA28869 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 07:34:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from SWorthington@hsag.com) Received: from BVA-Message_Server by bvainc.com with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 07 Jan 1999 08:33:48 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 08:31:04 -0700 From: "Scott Worthington" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Signal 11 occuring frequently from 2.2.8-Release -Reply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA28874 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> Greg Lehey January 7, 1999 12:46 am >>> On Wednesday, 6 January 1999 at 16:01:19 -0700, Scott Worthington wrote: > I am experiencing numberous Signal 11 after upgrading to > 2.2.8-Release on two different machines. > > The machines (two) did not exhibit this problem under 2.2.7-Release. > > Both machines are 486 DX2/66, one has 32MB Parity RAM and the other > has 64MB Parity RAM (I've checked if RAM was a problem, but it does > not fix the signal 11). > > Signal 11 usually occurs while compiling (gcc or cc) and it also > happens when Apache 1.3.3 is running (as proxy server). > > The first machine was CVS and a "make world" was performed from > 2.2.7 to 2.2.8 on Dec 11, 1998. > > The second machine was built from the Walnut Creek CD-ROMs > (2.2.8-Release). > > Any idea or is this a true bug in the CD-ROM 2.2.8-Release? >This is an almost classical case of hardware problems. It's confusing >that it started happening round the time you installed 2.2.8, but I'm >sure that's not the problem. Did you maybe add memory to the machine >at the same time? Or perform some other hardware modification, > maybe changing the BIOS parameters? > >Greg There were no changes in the BIOS, but I am researching if changing the wait states in the BIOS has any positive effects. I did notice that there is a SIGNAL 11 FAQ (for Linux but very applicable to FreeBSD) out on the Internet that does mention the classic symptoms of RAM/MOTHERBOARD/ETC problems that generate SIGNAL 11 problems. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message