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Subject: Re: bash 1.14.7 Sig 11 on FreeBSD 2.2-970422-RELENG 
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 23:49:05 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>	Basically, bash dumped core on the above when just installed
>from the standard 2.2 packages, which haven't been updated for the
>snap (or hadn't last Friday anyway). Pulling over the source and
>recompiling made the problem go away, and a kernel compile worked
>fine, which leads me to suspect the packages may need recompiling.
>
>	The hardware is:
>
>	ExpertBoard i430VX motherboard 
>	16Mb EDO RAM
>	Tekram 390F SCSI adaptor
>	2.1 Gb Quantum Fireball
>	Genius NE2000 compatible network card.
>
>	Which has worked fine in a number of other machines that I've
>configured 
>
>	Has anybody else come across this problem with bash or any of
>the other packages, or does it sound more like bas SIMMs? Could anyone
>suggest a means of testing the RAM to some *reasonable* extent?

Is your CPU sufficiently cooled by a fan? I once had a bad CPU cooler
(fan) with which my CPU (Pentium 120Mhz) caused sig 11 from time to
time under heavy load such as `make world'. Once the CPU is cooled
down the problem went away; which made me take quite a while to
diagnose the cause.

Kazu