From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 06:20:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4098516A41F for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:20:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A5B43D46 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:20:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C401310B5; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:50:06 +0930 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3792A84F89; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:50:06 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:50:06 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: pb Message-ID: <20051012062006.GX49168@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <6.2.3.4.0.20051012155754.01c324e8@mail.internode.on.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ggEtdcIX3XIOBw6T" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20051012155754.01c324e8@mail.internode.on.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Signal 11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:20:08 -0000 --ggEtdcIX3XIOBw6T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 12 October 2005 at 15:59:39 +1000, pb wrote: > Hi all > Can anyone tell me what a 'signal 11' is Signals are a kind of software interrupt. This particular one is called SIGSEGV, or a segmentation violation. This means that the processor has caught the program attempting to do something like access non-existent memory. > and why it causes my attempted install to crash about half way > through. It's quite common for flaky hardware to fail like this. If it always happens in the same place, it may be a software bug, in which case it would be good to know where it happens. If it happens in random places, conventional wisdom has it that your memory is probably flaky. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --ggEtdcIX3XIOBw6T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDTKsWIubykFB6QiMRAuoeAJ9sxasSJoun5GggVy3oqAKtLyTergCfRhOg NiFVeCeDqezVhTDOMTGN51o= =nSua -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ggEtdcIX3XIOBw6T--