From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 12 18:26:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378A416A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:26:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC5543D3F for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:26:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.250] (pool-68-161-115-118.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.115.118]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iACIQKc3019560 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:26:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4195004B.5080108@mac.com> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:26:19 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Schuele References: <4194F3FA.3010809@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <4194F3FA.3010809@computer.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.3 required=5.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Everything randomly generates .core files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:26:32 -0000 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