On 2 Sep, this message from Marvin Germain echoed through cyberspace: > I have had Woody installed for a couple of days now on my powerbase 180, > which contains a powerlogix G4 upgrade card. I am running the 2.4.18 kernel > that came on the debian CD. I have been having a lot of problems with > programs dying with a signal 11. This has happened frequently to the X > server. I have also had occassional difficulty getting the system to shut > down properly. Then it takes forever to get through fsck because fsck dies > with signal 11 or signal 4 on practically every inode. Incidently, fsck > frequently wanted to change a normal looking inode size to some crazy > 20-digit number. I had to say "n" to a lot of its suggestions. I have also > had vi and ps fail with segmentation faults. I decided to build my own > kernel, which also took for ever because gcc died after every few sources > with a signal 11. I finally got through it. BootX would not recognize the > vmlinux file, but I was able to boot off the miboot.image file, which seems > to be intended for a r! escue floppy. At any rate, there was no change in the system behavior. I am contemplating wiping the disk and starting all over. This is only a last resort, however, mainly because I had to run dselect about 20 times to get everything to install. I'm not looking forward to doing that again. Can anyone offer me a better idea? Thanks.
Please set your mailer to do linebreaks at a sane line lenght. Re. your problems, that looks suspiciously like a hardware problem, most probably with faulty RAM. Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
