>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.
Well... Sig11 would be related to some cache management problems, and we did have some at one point, partially due to a bug in glibc that may not yet be fixed (we have a workaround in the kernel that might be enough for it, I can't tell if debian's default kernel has it though) Ben.
