Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 05:37:31 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: john@starfire.mn.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: random coredumps since upgrade to 2.1 Message-ID: <199601131337.FAA00157@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jan 1996 06:03:30 CST." <199601131203.GAA28890@starfire.mn.org>
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>Since doing the install upgrade to 2.1, I have had programs randomly >coredumping on me. So far, it's been XSVGA (twice), tcsh (once, while >executing .csh, gzcat (once, while unzipping a man page), and popper >(once, while servicing a request). There has been no clue at any >time what has caused the problem, and it is totally non-deterministic >and non-repeatable. This was not happening under 2.0.5, and I have >not changed any hardware settings. > >The eystem is a noname 486-GIO-VT motherboard with only ISA equipment >in it, a 1542B running at 8Mhz bus rate, NE2000-compatible NIC, >Cy486DLC(2/66), and a Tseng Labs ET4000-based SVGA card. > >Any clues of where to start? It's generally not safe to run the 1542B at 8Mhz. I had a lot of problems doing that back when I had one. I suggest lowering it to 5.7Mhz and see if this helps the situation any. Also make sure that your ISA bus speed is at 8 or 8.33Mhz - the 1542B gets real unhappy if the ISA bus speed is too slow. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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