Re: [techtalk] signal 11 - help

2000-05-29 Thread Chris R.
could it be a hard drive error? - Original Message - From: "Alex Yan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 12:26 AM Subject: Re: [techtalk] signal 11 - help > > Wow, I've never seen that before. Well, actually, I h

Re: [techtalk] signal 11 - help

2000-05-09 Thread Jeff Dike
> We kept getting random signal 11's with an old 486, but the memory > check didn't find anything. The cpu fan wasn't working, though, so > could that also cause sigsev? Just interested... I think so. If the cpu is overheading, that could cause the same sorts of things. Although, I've mostly

Re: [techtalk] signal 11 - help

2000-05-09 Thread Marie Fischer
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jeff Dike wrote: > > What does signal 11 mean? > > The question you probably wanted answered more than that is what's going on. > With random behavior like you're getting, and with random SIGSEGVs involved, > my WAG would be bad memory. We kept getting random signal 11's w

Re: [techtalk] signal 11 - help

2000-05-04 Thread jenn
Jeff Dike wrote: > > > What does signal 11 mean? > > Signal 11 is SIGSEGV. It means that the process accessed (tried to, anyway) > memory that it had no access to, either because the address didn't exist in > its address space or because it didn't have the right permissions. > > The question y

Re: [techtalk] signal 11 - help

2000-05-03 Thread Jeff Dike
> What does signal 11 mean? Signal 11 is SIGSEGV. It means that the process accessed (tried to, anyway) memory that it had no access to, either because the address didn't exist in its address space or because it didn't have the right permissions. The question you probably wanted answered more

[techtalk] signal 11 - help

2000-05-03 Thread Chris R.
1) I have been trying to reinstall Linux after it crashed on me. I have tired Mandrake version 6.1 & 7.0. Both have not worked correctly. I have even gone as far as low level formating the hard drive to make sure it was not the problem. After reformatting the hard drive I did install Win98 s