Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:26:19 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Everything randomly generates .core files Message-ID: <4195004B.5080108@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4194F3FA.3010809@computer.org> References: <4194F3FA.3010809@computer.org>
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Eric Schuele wrote: > I'm having some difficulties with 5.3-RELEASE. I have made a fresh > install from the iso image I downloaded. Formatted the entire drive, > just to make sure it was clean. I have installed everything of interest > via the ports tree. But many things seem to fail randomly. I can use > xfe for a while, then blip its gone. pptpclient is the same. Fluxbox > generates .core files as well... but its never shutdown on me. xprop > has generated a few too. Doesn't seem to be any one app. This certainly sounds like a hardware issue like overheating or RAM going bad. Try running www.memtest.org overnight and see whether it finds anything. > I was previously using 5.3-BETA7 and did not have these problems. The > only thing I did different this time was to make things from the ports > tree instead of pkg_add everything. There shouldn't be a difference between the two, unless you've set up unusual compiler flags. Check the messages under /var/log, are you seeing SIGILLs (signal #4), or SIGSEGVs (#11)? If you are seeing signal 4's, and you compiled with -march=XXX, where XXX is not appropriate for your CPU, well, don't do that. :-) > (Sorry if this message is not wrapped at 72 char... thunderbird is > wrapping it in the gui... but not in the message!?!?) It was fine, although the consideration is appreciated. Your MUA is creating messages using: Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii ...which contains text properly wrapped for the 80-column crowd. -- -Chuck
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