Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:08:14 -0600 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Everything randomly generates .core files Message-ID: <4195344E.8070809@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <4195004B.5080108@mac.com> References: <4194F3FA.3010809@computer.org> <4195004B.5080108@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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'll try this tonight, and let you know the results. >> 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. :-) I don't know anything about 'unusual compiler flags'. I just 'make kernel KERNCONF=FILE' and 'make install clean' the ports. 'grep signal messages' shows: Nov 12 00:09:22 unx kernel: pid 847 (fluxbox), uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Nov 12 00:25:45 unx kernel: pid 8599 (pptp), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Nov 12 00:39:57 unx kernel: pid 8810 (xfe), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Nov 12 00:43:05 unx syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Nov 12 08:08:38 unx syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Nov 12 08:52:08 unx syslogd: exiting on signal 15 After a little googling... it looks like signal 15 is 'normal'... signal 11 is a segmentation fault (i.e application bug)... signal 6 is an application error that was 'handled' by the app. but I have the following files in my home dir: fluxbox.core; pptp.core; xfe.core; xprop.core. seems strange to me. Thoughts? Thanks -- Regards, Eric
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