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- Subject: GP faults and other trivia. . .
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.104048.1@ualr.edu>
- From: nmspillers@ualr.edu
- Date: 8 Sep 92 10:40:48 GMT
- Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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- Hello and welcome to my first posting on this news group. . .
-
- First of all, let me add my compliments and general awe to all who work
- on this project--fantastic job guys, you have probably created the
- Volkswagon of Unixes, no real snob value, but a loveable, durable solution that
- gets the job done--the people's OS!
-
- Anyhoo, the crux of my question is this--I'm working with Linux 0.96c
- (no patches yet, I want to solve this problem first) and trying to compile
- the kernel. I usually get a general protection fault somewhere in the kernel
- compile, this leads to a 4-11 meg (no lie!) core and the compile degenerates
- into signal 11 and 6 compiler errors. Ok, these usually mean you are running
- out of space, and with cores that big I can understand that one, but the
- few times I don't get a GP, I still get the signal 11's and 6's. I *know*
- that I still have about 10-15 megs free on the partition where my sources are,
- could it be complaining about the swap space?
-
- I did finally get an Image built by repeatedly firing the make sans clean until
- every module compiled (took a while!:-). Now I know this is probably a
- *bad*, or at least inelegant solution, but it did give me a useable Image.
- Ps compiled and installed without a hitch at all. The only grumble I have
- there is that when I was running top in an xterm, the sucker hit the
- warm boot interrupt!! (Talk about a unix coronary!) But I believe that
- one can be blamed on my screwy Image build (I think) and it only happened once
- out of many times. . .
-
- Does anyone have a solution?
-
- My system is:
-
- AMD 386/40
- TSENG 4000 video card with a meg
- 4 megs of ram
- 200 meg drive with 140 of it dedicated to Linux, and a 6 meg swap space
- linux v96c (I was playing with .97, but decided to take the excellent advice
- of some kind soul on this group and hang 1 version behind the cutting edge)
-
- Could it merely be a memory problem? If it's unix or a derivative, most
- problems can be solved by an additional 4 megs (which, by the way, is on the
- way!) and a larger swap space, or is it something with my bloody motherboard?
- The infamous AMD timing problem? Has that been affecting folks running
- Linux?
-
- Apologies if this has already been covered earlier in this news group, but
- I didn't think this was a FAQ, and couldn't find any reference to it in the
- messages I've got here at my site.
-
- nate
- ACS resource manager
- nmspillers@ualr.edu
- nms@curie.ualr.edu
-