From: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel) Subject: X dies and sync dumps core in /dev directory... help!?? Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:45:07 GMT
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?