Re: HELP: Fatal Signal 11
There's something in the kernel 2.0 readme about this problem. It is
related to hardware problems. For me, it turned out to be a problem with
the external cache in my motherboard.
Al Youngwerth
alberty@apexxtech.com
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> From: John Maheu <maheuj@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: HELP: Fatal Signal 11
> Date: Wednesday, April 23, 1997 1:09 PM
>
> Hi all: I'm fairly new to linux. Lately I've been getting a lot of fatal
> signal 11's.
>
> It seems to occur when my system has been up for a few days under light
> load or up a day under a heavier load, running some job in the background
> for about 24 hours. Then I get, compiling using g77 (I had been running
> memtest in the background for about 18 hours):
>
> gcc: Internal compiler error: program f771 got fatal signal 11
> I also get this with fort77. (I know the fortran code is OK.) Trying
this
> several
> more times usually results in a complete lock-up and a nasty reboot.
>
> Some of the error messages I've gotten trying to compile code are
> 1 general protection: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<0012398b>]
> EFLAGS: 00010213
> eax:64746769 ebx:0180cb28 ecx:0180cb28 edx:73006569
> esi:00000004 edi:00657c00 ebp:000ec5fa esp:01ff9b54
> ds:0018 es:0018 fs:002b gs:002b ss:0018
> process f771(pid:31229, process nr, 21 ,stackpage=01ff9000) ????
> 2. hdb2: bad access: block=925712, count=1283457032... more of the same
> 3. Fatal Signal 11,7
>
> I've tried memtest and memtest-86, no errors found.
> If I reboot I can use g77 as much as I want with no errors, but after
> several days I begin to see Fatal Signal 11 or if I have a cpu intensive
> job in the backgound for about 24 hours lots of trouble.
> Below is my system and some stuff from /proc
>
> ANY HELP would be greatly appreciated.
> Is this a memory leak?
> How do I isolate the hardware thats causing the problem?
> Thanks
> John
>
> Specs:
> Pentium 100, 40 MB RAM, cache 256
> L2 cache SRAM type async
> Award Modular BIOS v4.50PG
> Intel 82430IB ver2.0-S
> kernel 2.0.27, gcc 2.7.2.1 debian 1.2
>
> cat pci cpuinfo stat meminfo interrupts > /out
>
> PCI devices found:
> Bus 0, device 18, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: Trident TG 9440 (rev 227).
> Medium devsel. IRQ 12.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0000000.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0200000.
> Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
> IDE interface: Intel 82371 Triton PIIX (rev 2).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
> I/O at 0x3000.
> Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
> ISA bridge: Intel 82371 Triton PIIX (rev 2).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No
bursts.
> Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
> Host bridge: Intel 82437 (rev 1).
> Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
> processor : 0
> cpu : 586
> model : Pentium 75+
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> stepping : 5
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid : yes
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
> bogomips : 39.73
> cpu 347 0 490 35299
> disk 1 1247 0 0
> disk_rio 1 1006 0 0
> disk_wio 0 241 0 0
> disk_rblk 2 2018 0 0
> disk_wblk 0 482 0 0
> page 3138 306
> swap 1 0
> intr 43585 36136 483 0 0 65 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6898 0
> ctxt 3282
> btime 861816450
> processes 211
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 40194048 5890048 34304000 4530176 593920 2908160
> Swap: 50540544 0 50540544
> MemTotal: 39252 kB
> MemFree: 33500 kB
> MemShared: 4424 kB
> Buffers: 580 kB
> Cached: 2840 kB
> SwapTotal: 49356 kB
> SwapFree: 49356 kB
> 0: 36137 timer
> 1: 483 keyboard
> 2: 0 cascade
> 4: 65 + serial
> 5: 2 sound blaster
> 13: 1 math error
> 14: 6898 + ide0
> 15: 0 + ide1
>
>
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> John Maheu
> Queen's University
> Dept. of Economics
> Kingston ON
> Canada
> K7L 3N6
> email: maheuj@qed.econ.queensu.ca
>
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