Eric Schuele wrote:
I'm having some difficulties with 5.3-RELEASE. I have made a fresh install from the iso image I downloaded. Formatted the entire drive, just to make sure it was clean. I have installed everything of interest via the ports tree. But many things seem to fail randomly. I can use xfe for a while, then blip its gone. pptpclient is the same. Fluxbox generates .core files as well... but its never shutdown on me. xprop has generated a few too. Doesn't seem to be any one app.
This certainly sounds like a hardware issue like overheating or RAM going bad. Try running www.memtest.org overnight and see whether it finds anything.
I'll try this tonight, and let you know the results.
I was previously using 5.3-BETA7 and did not have these problems. The only thing I did different this time was to make things from the ports tree instead of pkg_add everything.
There shouldn't be a difference between the two, unless you've set up unusual compiler flags. Check the messages under /var/log, are you seeing SIGILLs (signal #4), or SIGSEGVs (#11)? If you are seeing signal 4's, and you compiled with -march=XXX, where XXX is not appropriate for your CPU, well, don't do that. :-)
I don't know anything about 'unusual compiler flags'. I just 'make kernel KERNCONF=FILE' and 'make install clean' the ports.
'grep signal messages' shows:
Nov 12 00:09:22 unx kernel: pid 847 (fluxbox), uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Nov 12 00:25:45 unx kernel: pid 8599 (pptp), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Nov 12 00:39:57 unx kernel: pid 8810 (xfe), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
Nov 12 00:43:05 unx syslogd: exiting on signal 15
Nov 12 08:08:38 unx syslogd: exiting on signal 15
Nov 12 08:52:08 unx syslogd: exiting on signal 15
After a little googling... it looks like signal 15 is 'normal'... signal 11 is a segmentation fault (i.e application bug)... signal 6 is an application error that was 'handled' by the app.
but I have the following files in my home dir: fluxbox.core; pptp.core; xfe.core; xprop.core.
seems strange to me. Thoughts?
Thanks -- Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
