On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:51:05PM -0700, Marvin Germain wrote: > 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 rescue 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. > Marvin Germain
I hope Michel's diagnosis is correct, and that a few RAM sticks will fix this. If you do reinstall, to avoid the hassle of dselecting again, use dpkg --get-selections > save_file Then, when you get your system reset, dpkg --set-selections < save_file -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
