From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 27 11:55:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA15574 for current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:55:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from hobbes.saturn-tech.com (drussell@[207.229.19.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA15563 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:55:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (drussell@localhost) by hobbes.saturn-tech.com (8.8.4/8.8.2) with SMTP id MAA25946; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:53:02 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:53:02 -0700 (MST) From: Doug Russell To: David Greenman cc: Terry Lambert , David Dawes , joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SIGABRTs killing X In-Reply-To: <199703270826.AAA19418@root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, David Greenman wrote: > Ah. Try setting the memory speed one notch slower than full blast. This > appears to be a memory timing problem (or just bad RAM?). The most common > case of the X server getting a SIGABRT is via another unexpected signal > (usually SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, or SIGILL) - the server calls abort() in this > case which then sends itself a signal in order to cause the system to > generate a core file. I don't remember if I left it at full tilt or not. I will slow it down a bit and see if it still does it. On the other hand, making it to it at all seems to be a little tricky. It did it twice within two days (about 24 hours apart), and then hasn't done it since. 45ns EDO RAM should be able to run just fine with everything turned all the way up, so I may try re-seating the SIMMs, and testing the RAM (or swapping it for other SIMMs) if it keeps doing it. Later......