From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 31 14:46:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sloth.wcug.wwu.edu (sloth.wcug.wwu.edu [140.160.213.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FF3037B71E for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:46:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rshannon@wcug.wwu.edu) Received: (qmail 5140 invoked by uid 1146); 31 Mar 2001 22:46:09 -0000 Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:46:09 -0800 From: Ryan Shannon To: Jonathan Chen Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: seg fault / bus error - core dump Message-ID: <20010331144609.A19414@sloth.wcug.wwu.edu> References: <20010329135704.A15230@sloth.wcug.wwu.edu> <20010330095944.A31010@itouchnz.itouch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010330095944.A31010@itouchnz.itouch>; from jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 09:59:44AM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the tip. Thinking that it may be the memory, I installed memtest from the ports collection and as root ran memtest all -l which immediately seg faulted. I've got 384 Megs of RAM, so I ran memtest 384M -l which worked perfectly and didn't dtetct any errors. What's the difference between these two commands, and why would one seg fault and not the other? Thanks, Ryan On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 09:59:44AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:57:04PM -0800, Ryan Shannon wrote: > > I am getting either seg faults and core dumps or bus errors and core dumps > > on a regular basis. It happens a lot when installing ports. I get random > > reboots as well. > > > > I'm running 4.2 Release > > > > What to do? > > Check out: > http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/troubleshoot.html#SIGNAL11 > -- > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Power corrupts, Absolute Power is pretty neat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message