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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.
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