On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 09:24 , Hank Roberts wrote:
> I've installed Fink three times now, just to get the "jstar" WordStar
> clone
> working so I can type properly. Each time -- and this may just be
> coincidence -- within a day I get crashes in all sorts of applications,
> all
> starting with the lines:
> Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
> Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001)
>
> and each time, finally, I've had to reformat the drive and reinstall.
>
> Now I don't blame Fink -- this definitely happens even when I haven't
> installed Fink, within a couple of weeks' use of OS X. I find the error
> message is from Mach code via BSD Unix, a virtual memory problem.
> Nobody
> in Apple's "Amateur Hour" discussion boards answers questions about
> it, I
> would guess it's a known bug on some internal list that we mere users
> don't
> see.
>
> But, stop me before I try again, if anyone around here knows for sure
> whether or not OS X 10.1.5 itself is stable enough to be messing with
> Fink.
I've been using 10.1.5 on a couple of systems since it appeared (and
10.1.x, before that, in order...). I've seen nothing like this problem,
and the system seems pretty stable to me. I do a lot of heavy
compilation (C++ [yuck] libraries for number theory; kernel builds; ...)
and number theoretic computations which can go on for hours and days.
I've had no significant problems (if you discount the screwing around at
the keyboard...). I also have used fink a fair amount for (libraries
and packages for) related work.
Regards,
Justin
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