From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 6 06:44:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA08295 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 06:44:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from pardal ([200.255.244.56]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id GAA08289 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 06:44:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from paulo (paulo [200.1.1.51]) by pardal (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA28639 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 12:48:04 -0200 Message-ID: <32D0F453.2781E494@sul.com.br> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 12:47:15 +0000 From: Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade Organization: FiscoData X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD hackers Subject: sig-11 plague Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Another day i read a message saying the phrase *sig-11 plague*, and i thought i was having the same problem. Two weeks ago i upgrade from my 386 to an amd 5x86, and after a hard time to get FreeBSD installed *manually*, (i was receiveing messages like: *tar: child returned code 1* *gzip: not in compressed format*), i restarted working on a xpaint like program that i am writing on my free time. But cc1 was frequentely receiving a sig 11, sometimes a sig 6, and this is the better case when it failed, i get .o files that did not link because were corrupt. I resolved the problem in the BIOS setup, i disabled the external cache, and now cc1 does not fail. After that, i was browsing the handbook, and read the section 21.1.1.4, where there are a description of PCI. I am not a hardware expert, and i also dont know what pci i have, but if it is a Mercury, i have done the correct work-around. Im using FreeBSD 2.1.0. I have now a doubt: is this a feature of pci or is a todo in FreeBSD (perhaps a done, since im using 2.1.0) or is i that have a not good hardware or another thing ? []s. Paulo.