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Date:      Tue, 6 Mar 2001 05:34:38 -0800
From:      "oldfart@gtonet" <oldfart@gtonet.net>
To:        "FreeBSD-stable" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Argh! Many sig 11's
Message-ID:  <BIEHKEFNHFMMJEKCDMLNCEODCFAA.oldfart@gtonet.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010306142551.I1448@abc.123.org>

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The CPU could have been zapped as well but RAM would be more likely to die
first with a power supply failure. I think it depends on the motherboard
somewhat too. Can you swap it with "known good"(TM) memory? Good luck, man.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kai Voigt
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 5:26 AM
> To: Kal Torak
> Cc: FreeBSD-stable
> Subject: Re: Argh! Many sig 11's
>
>
> Kal Torak wrote:
> >
> > One of my machines running 4.0 Stable had its power supply go,
> > I since replaced it and now when coping large amounts of data etc
> > things start dieing with sig 11's...
> >
> > Eg. cp -ipRP /usr /newusr (/usr and /newusr are in separate drives)
> > after about 10mins of copying syslogd exited on 11, then ntpd then
> > getty, then vm caused a panic and the system died...
> >
> > I thing one of the hdds is on the way out.. But could this cause the
> > sig 11's? I dont see what other hardware could of been damaged by the
> > power supply dieing...
>
> Signal 11 usually means hardware problems.  Most likely, RAM is
> broken, which is not suprising after a power supply damage.
>
> Read http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ for further details.
>
> Kai
>
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> kai voigt   dreiecksplatz 8   24105 kiel   0431-22199869
> http://k.123.org/
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