Re: Segmentation faults
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Sveinbjorn Thordarson wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I've just finished installing debian potato m68k on an LC 630 (a
> 68LC040, no FPU). Everything goes pretty well, except for the fact that
> after I've booted i get the following message when loading inetd:
>
> "Starting inetd superserver:
> INIT: Id "1" spawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"
Unfortunately, you have a broken 68LC040. There's some bug in this
processor in the Floating Point Exception-handling and Memory-management
part of it. If you're interested in the specifics, please search the
archives of the newsgroup comp.os.linux.m68k (for instance at
groups.google.com), it's the most frequently asked question there.
[...]
> Is this the FPU emulation layer failing?
No, the hardware is.
> Is there anything I can do
> about it?
Install a good LC040 in your system, or better yet, a full 68040.
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