Re: Signal 11?

[Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net>]

"Colin Boyd" <colin_boyd@hotmail.com> writes:

> I wrote in the other day detailing the overwhelming amount of erradic 
> behaviour my new system (K62-550,128MB,16M Vid)
> 
> I have a tyan trinity AGP motherboard.
> 
> I've finally got the network card working....and the systems general 
> stability seems ok...(admittedly I haven't done much...browsed the web and 
> such...) But it still won't let me compile the kernel without crashing. In 
> my message the other day I said that everytime I tried it would bomb with a 
> signal 6....at a diffrent place each time. Counting the rest of the general 
> system instability I decided to follow some advice and run a comprehensive 
> memory test....and it passed.
> 
> So now I'm wondering if anyone else could share a few ideas as to problems. 
> All my peripherals work (which is very few) and there are no IRQ conflicts. 
> The memory test (as I said before) passed, and the HD is brand new, fresh 
> out of the box. Here's the detailed list of parts...in case anyone can pick 
> out a known-to-be-a-bitch part.
> 
> Tyan Trinity AGP Motherboard w/ AMD K6-2 550Mz
> Diamond Stealth SG540 16M video.
> 128M SDRAM (1 new 64M, and 1 old - both 100mhz - both passed memtest86)
> 10GB Maxtor HD
> Kingston EtherX KNE100TX 10/100
> 
> I am running Debian 2.2 - I know it's frozen and not stable, but I couldn't 
> make the kernel compile when I installed a fresh slink either...and potato 
> is just so much more trick!
> 
> And here is what I get when the kernel compile dies.

this is most probably not a compiler problem.
When I tried to overclock a Celeron 300A, I also had these problems -
only when compiling. It seems that gcc is "exercising" the system the most.

-- 
Felix Natter