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- From: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel)
- Subject: X dies and sync dumps core in /dev directory... help!??
- Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
- Message-ID: <KFOGEL.92Aug31204507@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
- Distribution: comp.os.linux
- Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose)
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:45:07 GMT
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- I had 4 megs of memory, decided to upgrade to 8. I bought
- 4 more megs of the wrong speed (stupid mistake on my part) and
- got parity errors when I tried to run X Windows. It essentially hangs
- and I must press ctl-alt-backspace to leave it, as mouse is dead.
- So I went out and got the right speed and type of memory. *Same*
- problem still with X. I started to get scared and got my actual
- original 4 megs back (the very same SIMMS) and the same problems
- with X are still present. Now I have no X, but everything else
- still works just fine, including Emacs and Make! Just X. How could
- I have screwed something up permanently with a simple memory upgrade
- (I have given back the extra memory and now have only my original 4
- SIMMs there!) I have also noticed that each time Linux syncs now it
- dumps core in my /dev directory -- same size each time, suspiciously.
- What have I done to X Windows with my attempt to have eight megs like
- any civilized person? How could a permanent problem have been created
- by some bad RAM? I have already reinstalled the binutils from the
- rootdisk (I'm using 0.96c right now), but it didn't help (or hurt).
- Any ideas?
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- -Karl Fogel
- ("Leg of Lark")
- (kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu)
- (fogel@antares.mcs.anl.gov)
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- "I'm not lost... I know exactly where I'm not!"
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