Re: Signal 11
>On 2 Sep, this message from Marvin Germain echoed through cyberspace:
>> I have had Woody installed for a couple of days now on my
>powerbase 180, which contains a powerlogix G4 upgrade card. I am running
>the 2.4.18 kernel that came on the debian CD. I have been having a lot
>of problems with programs dying with a signal 11. This has happened
>frequently to the X server. I have also had occassional difficulty
>getting the system to shut down properly. Then it takes forever to get
>through fsck because fsck dies with signal 11 or signal 4 on practically
>every inode. Incidently, fsck frequently wanted to change a normal
>looking inode size to some crazy 20-digit number. I had to say "n" to a
>lot of its suggestions. I have also had vi and ps fail with segmentation
>faults. I decided to build my own kernel, which also took for ever
>because gcc died after every few sources with a signal 11. I finally got
>through it. BootX would not recognize the vmlinux file, but I was able
>to boot off the miboot.image file, which seems to be intended for a r!
>escue floppy. At any rate, there was no change in the system behavior.
>I am contemplating wiping the disk and starting all over. This is only a
>last resort, however, mainly because I had to run dselect about 20 times
>to get everything to install. I'm not looking forward to doing that
>again. Can anyone offer me a better idea? Thanks.
>
>Please set your mailer to do linebreaks at a sane line lenght.
>
>Re. your problems, that looks suspiciously like a hardware problem, most
>probably with faulty RAM.
Well... Sig11 would be related to some cache management problems, and
we did have some at one point, partially due to a bug in glibc that
may not yet be fixed (we have a workaround in the kernel that might
be enough for it, I can't tell if debian's default kernel has it though)
Ben.
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