Date: 17 Jul 2000 23:22:58 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre%no-spam@citeweb.net> To: "Shawn Barnhart" <swb@grasslake.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Signal 11 on 4-Stable buildworld; bad memory or what? Message-ID: <k8ek5u4t.fsf@pc166.gits.fr> In-Reply-To: "Shawn Barnhart"'s message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:27:11 -0500" References: <003401bfeffb$19083020$b8209fc0@campbellmithun.com>
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"Shawn Barnhart" <swb@grasslake.net> writes: > My buildworld is failing, often in the same places, and always with a signal > 11, which I think is a segmentation violation (SIGSEGV). When I first > attempted buildworld it died right away. I rebooted the machine and it got > further, but died again with the same error. Subsequent attempts died > early; reboot and it dies later. > > I've recently moved this system to an Asus TXP4 motherboard with an AMD > K6-233 CPU and a single 128MB stick of PC100 SDRAM. No overclocking or > other hardware hackery is being used. The same machine had been running > (blush) Windows 2000 since March with little or no problems -- no problem > with lockups, blue screens, etc. > > The FreeBSD install I'm using had previously been running on a generic Dell > Pentium 200 and lived through a half-dozen buildworlds without breaking. > > Since I haven't seen a anyone else's world breaking this way, I'm assuming > that this is a hardware problem -- but what kind? Memory? I have a spare > Pentium 166 CPU and extra SDRAM I can swap, any clues as to where to start? > > FWIW, I cvsup'd numerous times throughout 16-July, in case I caught things > during a commit. try http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady/memtest86, that helped me. Cyrille. -- home:mailto:clefevre%no-spam@citeweb.net Supprimer "%no-spam" pour me repondre. work:mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre%no-spam@edf.fr Remove "%no-spam" to answer me back. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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