Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 11:42:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jonathan Michaels <jlm@caamora.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sig11 failures only with xwindows apps Message-ID: <19981129114245.U6182@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981129112609.A12998@caamora.com.au>; from jonathan michaels on Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:26:09AM %2B1100 References: <19981129112609.A12998@caamora.com.au>
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On Sunday, 29 November 1998 at 11:26:09 +1100, jonathan michaels wrote: > hello all, > > i've been using freebsd for several years now and have just started to use > xfree86 as my "gui interface". > > my network has an i486dx33 with 16 mb and adaptec-1542b, this is used > primarily as teh gateway/router host from which i network here. this is > stable and likes freebsd, of teh two 'working hosts', both intel powered > machines, > > p5-133, pci buslogic bt-958, 64 mb dram, smc pci 10 mb nic, stb powergraph > p6-180, pci adaptec aha-2940, 128 mb dram, smc 10-100 mb nic, matrox mil2 > > both of these machines run textmode (cli) flawlessly, but when i go to x > windows, i start to get sig 11 failures, not just teh big things like andrew > file systems apps, xemacs, but running an xterm with ee will core and drop > dead. x keeps running, but i have a hard disk littered with little piles of > core droppings .. grin > > i've torn down and rebuilt both machines several times and can find noting > wrong with either. all components work flawlessly, in teh 'suspect' chassis, > as well as in other assemblies. i know that hardware ages and gets less > stable, but teh p6 is a new supermicro (p6sne motherboard) with guarenteed to > run unixware, novell, nt, etc operating systems. when returned to supplier it > would perform flawlessly, both nt and unixware running a web server mix > application suite. > > ummmm. help please. if it explaines anyting, i set all teh accounts here as > default class .. maybe i should be allocating more resources to x window > enabled accounts, yes, if so how much ? i am not really familiar with x and > wouldn't know where to start. The obvious explanation is ``hardware''. Don't be concerned with the fact it's a brand new machine, it happens there too. Could be a bad memory chip, could be incorrectly set BIOS chipset timing parameters. If, on the other hand, you can find a reproducible situation, we should take a look at the entrails. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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