From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 14 15:11:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA21133 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:11:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA21122 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:11:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA02837; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:10:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:10:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Nick Popoff cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with Packages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Nick Popoff wrote: > Hiya. I'm having a problem adding packages to my new 2.2.2 FreeBSD > installation via the net. I've tried using /stand/sysinstall, plus > "make"ing the specific packages I'm trying to get (bash, pine). Either > way, when it's almost finished downloading the archive, or just after it > finishes downloading, I get a page fault, and FreeBSD reboots. Wierd. Do you get random programs dying with signal 11? You may have some bad memory modules or processor cache. That or some device connected to IRQ 7 is corrupting memory. I've hada quickcam generate panics when I exited X, which causes spurious IRQ 7's on my mainboard. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major