On 26-Oct-2001 Eric Christian Carlsen wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> On 26-Oct-2001 Eric Christian Carlsen wrote: >> > One other question. Blackbox has been crashing on me with signal elevens >> > fairly often recently. Any idea on what that is? Thanks >> >> a sig 11 is a nasty one. Causes run from memory corruption to overheating, >> from compiler error to other types of compiler error. >> >> So, try recompiling it. What changed? glibc, kernel, ..... > > The only thing that's changed as far as software goes before I started having > the problem is that I installed nvidia's drivers for my card instead of the > 'nv' driver that comes in XFree86. I also installed a new cdrom. I did those > two things at about the same time and I've been getting crashes since then. > However, my memory was only about three weeks old, didn't see any crashes > during those 3 weeks but maybe it's starting to act up now? I'm going to try > to compile the kernel a few times and see if I get them during that. Thanks > for all the suggestions. >
The driver change could be behind this, although I doubt you are the only nvidia owning blackbox user. Thing is, sig11's are annoying. Literally it is 'sigbus' which means in some random place the machine did something it did not understand, kind of like a segfault. Could be you put a misaligned word into a buffer or it could an xray hit the 3rd byte of memory while it was being written. As you can see it is quite hard to identify. Happy hacking.
