From: rcopg@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Paul Gortmaker) Subject: Re: cc1 got signal 11 ??? Date: 9 Aug 1993 07:13:26 GMT
w6i@ornl.gov (John C. Wingenbach) writes:
>In article <240o8fINN34s@gap.caltech.edu> ashley@cco.caltech.edu (Allen M. Ashley) writes:
>>While I was trying to re-compile my kernel I got this
>>message and the make aborted. What is it? How can I find
>>a list of such error messages? Whod decided to make
>>such cryptic messages?
>I received the same message when recompiling the kernel on my PC at office. I
>have had to attribute it to collateral damage (via lightning). I believe the
>final conclusion is bad HD & controller. Hopefully in your case it is not
>this.
...another possibility is that the ISA bus speed is set higher than the
default 8MHz. When setting up Linux on a 386/40 clone, I had to drop the
bus speed back, as I was getting all sorts of strange errors, including
the above. It was running 10MHz under DOS. I believe that the problem
occurs by corruption of swap space which leads to a SEGV eventually.
Further evidence of this was corrupt characters in text files that
mysteriously vanished once the file was re-read from disk, instead of
being viewed from the copy in the RAM cache. So you get corruption of
swap space *and* disk cache. Go into the BIOS and make sure you aren't
running a higher (non-std.) bus speed.
Regards,
Paul.
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