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- From: geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: System crashes
- Message-ID: <0fHMRX200WAvQ1Wggk@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 03:53:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.0fHMRX200WAvQ1Wggk
- Organization: Administrative Computing & Info Services, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 47
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- Ever since I upgraded to 0.99, I have been having strange and
- unpredictable system errors. The *easiest* way for me to generate is
- to try to cd /usr/src/linux and make Image. The system will compile 5
- or 6 files and then I will get an error of some sort. I've seen *all*
- of the following (from memory, sorry):
-
- cc1 got signal 11
- cc1 got signal 6
- make: unknown process 1607 finished
- nr_free_pages=330, but free_page_list is empty!
- quiet core dumps from gcc/make
- make hanging (i.e. the current compile finishes, but make doesn't
- notice it)
- two different errors in make, both of which tell me to let HJ or
- (null) know about it so he can fix it.
-
- Also, if I open a shell in one VC, switch to another and do something
- that uses lots of memory, and then switch back to the first one, the
- first one will usually exit at the first keystroke and present me with
- the login prompt again.
-
- I *also* get unkillable processes which use up 98% of their CPU
- cycles. Kill -9 doesn't do anything for them, and their state is R.
- Any pointers?
-
- Configuration:
- 40MHz 386
- 0.99p1 (trying to build 0.99p2, but it takes a long time a 5 files
- compiled per invocation)
- 4MB Ram (70ns)
- 2 80MB ST-296N HDs (SCSI)
- Seagate ST-01 SCSI Adapter
- /lib/libc.so.4 -> hard link to /lib/libc.so.4.2
- /lib/libc.so.4.0 -> hard link to /lib/libc.so.4.2
- /lib/libc.so.4.1
- /lib/libc.so.4.2 (from libc.so.4.2.Z on sunsite)
- gcc 2.3.3
- bash -> libc.so.4.1
- most things on my system use libc.so.4.1, some use libc.so.4.2
-
- -Brian
-
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