From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 19 20:21:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C52B1065675 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:21:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (brucec-1-pt.tunnel.tserv4.nyc4.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f06:c09::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD008FC12 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:21:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54F51900F; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:21:23 +0000 (GMT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on muon X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from gluon.draftnet (unknown [IPv6:2a01:348:10f:0:240:f4ff:fe57:9871]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:21:23 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:21:20 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Glen Barber Message-ID: <20090619212120.531af76a@gluon.draftnet> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310906191235p3cb3b3c0h1ad61e3904e209b9@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090619175537.36128909@gluon.draftnet> <20090619201419.27fcec9b@gluon.draftnet> <4ad871310906191221q2aadc509sfbc41eb6e8db00e8@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310906191235p3cb3b3c0h1ad61e3904e209b9@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.2; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Processes dying with signal 11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:21:25 -0000 On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:35:09 -0400 Glen Barber wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Glen Barber > wrote: > > I would suspect hardware. =A0Most probably RAM than anything else > > initially. =A0Can you run memtest86+? > > >=20 > Also, for what it's worth, I had this similar scenario a few years > ago. After numerous hardware replacements (RAM, motherboard, etc, > etc) it turned out to the the CPU that was the problem. >=20 > It was bad enough that I couldn't even do a 'portsnap fetch' because > the checksum would be incorrectly calculated. >=20 >=20 Unfortunately memtest86+ runs on x86 hardware and this is a PowerPC iBook. Being Apple hardware there's not much swapping of hardware I can do - I'll run a few more tests but I guess it's probably time to chuck it away. --=20 Bruce