Ken Thompson wrote:
> > Stack: 00000000 c0334c5f 0000000a c0334860 00000046 00000032 bffffbb8
> This looks like memory problems (Cache, system or video)
> There a couple of things you may want to try:
> a) turn off external cache in BIOS and see what happens while trying to
> reboot. If this fixes your problem the cache memory is bad and usually
> requires a MoBo replacement.
> b) Turn the external cache back on and turn off the internal cache (CPU) and
> again try the reboot process.
> If this fixes the problem you'll have to replace the CPU.
> c) change the video card temporarily and again try the reboot.
> If this fixes the problem, replace the video card.
> I just had the exact same problem and a video card replacement fixed it.
> HTH,
I finally got around to trying another video card entirely, an ATI Rage
Pro. Still get a trap on shutdown. Originally I thought the problem was
external cache, but since the problem didn't happen on every shutdown, I
was simply fooled by several successive good boots. Disabling cache
turned KDE into a total slug. I also tried two other DIMM sticks, but no
change there either.
OS/2 eCS seems to be solid on this system. I'm not entirely sure about
W98 or W2K, since I don't actually use them for anything important. On
Mandrake, it was looking solid (not counting the shutdown trap) until I
changed the video card. On one of the first two or three ATI boots, KDE
locked the machine up solidly - no keyboard, no mouse. Reset button
required to regain control.
Next move is reinstall the Matrox, but after that I have no idea. I do
get another segmentation fault on every boot (line 17 in rc.modules;
maybe a null script variable? Don't know whether comment or blank lines
are given line numbers). I have no idea what that is either, but boot
doesn't stop. With the Matrox, everthing that needs to work seems fine.
Then at shutdown the trap.
Note from the original post "/etc/rc6.d/S01reboot: line 1: 2813
Segmentation fault". Would knowing the content of 2813 be of any use to
someone trying to help with this?
> > What is broken? How do I fix it? At this point a hard reset is required.
> > K6/2-450; 128 Mb SDRAM; VIA MVP3; Matrox G450; /dev/hda=Maxtor 40 Gb;
> > /dev/hdb=52X CD reader; /dev/hdc=3 Gb Quantum; /dev/hdd=NEC CD-RW;
> > ZIP100 on SCSI.
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