Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 11:43:50 -0800 From: Roger Howe <timhowe@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Strange things are happening... Message-ID: <33440875.DD3@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
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I just downloaded FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE onto floppies and installed it. I also got the appropriate version of XFree86. Very often, both in and out of the windowing system, I am getting very strange errors. Here are the ones I can remember: Segmentation fault Bus error Very occaisionally, the system just halts, and I have to do a cold reset. I have tried changing the wait states and bus speed from the BIOS, but nothing has worked. I think the problem is related to the installation of XF86, because before I installed it, this didn't happen. For example, before, one of the programs I have would say "Error: wrong file or version" when I gave it a bad input file. Now, FreeBSD kills it, saying "Bus error (core dumped)". Is there any way to uninstall XF86 so I can try reinstalling it? Also, are there any known problems like this with either FreeBSD 2.2 or XFree86 2.2? I have a IBM Blue Lightning motherboard with a 486sx chip, 8mb of RAM, one 3.5 and one 5.25 floppy drive, a CD-ROM drive, and a 540MB hard drive. The hard drive is partitioned into two DOS partitions and a FreeBSD partition, dual-booting with FreeBSD's loader. Tim Howe timhowe@bigfoot.com http://members.aol.com/timhowe PGP public key at http://members.aol.com/timhowe
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