On Friday 26 October 2001 17:52, you wrote:
> 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.
Well, I'm running on a R128 GL accellerated server, and recently I've also
received many signal 11 crashs (I made a small C program to while(1){} to
just take up space in my .xinitrc file (Example configs at bottom).
That simply makes it so when blackbox crashes, it doesn't take X and the
world with it. It's a cheap hack, but I do believe we have something in
common, my 3d support has been knocked off recently (not any time to find out
why, except for the missing GL librarys in X11R6/lib/extentions). --Too the
point, does your 3d work still? If not, did you crash before you noticed
your 3d support konqed out?
(
#~/.xinitrc:
#!/bin/sh
blackbox &
-----
//loopy.c
//compile with gcc loopy.c -o loopy
int main(){
while(1){
}
return 1;
}
)
