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Date:      Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:56:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Kulp <dkulp@neomorphic.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Everything seg faults -- how to diagnose?
Message-ID:  <199809142256.PAA16930@board66.cruzers.com>
In-Reply-To: <130380197@toto.iv>

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A followup: the same problem happened a second time after rebooting.
But this time, all the new processes exit on sig 10.  Strangely, the
first process to crash both times was sed.

I don't think this is a PAO problem, but maybe it's worth noting that
I used the 2.2.6 PAO (since PAO had pccard support) to install FBSD
2.2.7 over the net.  I've since recompiled the kernel a couple times
and I didn't add any of the special PAO options during the initial
install, but I'm cc-ing mobile just in case someone can comment.

Any help would be *much* appreciated!
If this is a hardware problem -- how can I prove it?!

thanks,
-d

David Kulp writes:
 > Last week I installed FBSD 2.2.7 on an IBM ThinkPad 365.  I've got it
 > running off-site and I'm logged in, compiling a port and suddenly
 > every process seg faults, the build fails, and I'm unable to run
 > anything except built-ins and a few commands like cat and ls from the
 > shell.
 > 
 > I've cat'd /var/log/messages and all it reports is that each program
 > signal 11'd.
 > 
 > As it turns out, I was trying to run 'configure' for ssh and it was
 > trying some assembly language optimizations just when everything went
 > kaplooey.  
 > 
 > What could be going on?  Should I be looking anywhere else for
 > diagnostics?  This machine was running fine for about a week with
 > httpd on it.  (In fact httpd continued running OK -- but no new
 > processes can start up, including any new shells!)
 > 
 > After rebooting, everything seems OK, and re-running configure worked,
 > but this is very worrisome.
 > 
 > I urged my group to use FBSD, so my reputation is a bit on the line
 > here.  Your help would be appreciated.
 > 
 > thanks,
 > David

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