Thanks, Fernando! Thanks, Martin! (Thanks, List!) First of all:
On 26/9/02 5:23 PM, "Martin Costabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Come on, you are not going to blame fink for the crashes of this kind of > software? (He then went on to say he was only kidding.) And, no, I don't blame Fink, nor Marc Liyanage (Sorry about the spelling earlier, Marc.) mySQL work. In fact I'm thinking the most likely candidate is some normally harmless or misconfigured-by-me config setting or privileges setting or file left behind when I tried-to-install/successfully-installed/uninstalled Marc L's mySQL 4.0 and manually removed the mySQL User from System Preferences, that somehow conflicts with Fink's mySQL. (Maybe if I had found Fink sooner or if I had known I would be using DBD-mysql.pm before installing Mark's very clean 4.0 package, I would've been fine. I'm just afraid I made an error somewhere in that circuitous process.) Is there ANY type of Mac or Unix application or driver I might have installed that would be likely to cause many unrelated programs in my system to start accessing memory outside their respective spaces, when it almost never happened in the first 6 months or so before? I'm pretty sure the only other changes to my system around that time were adding MySQL and DBA-mySQL and their dependent packages; Norton Internet Security (bundle of Anti-virus and Personal Firewall--may have been around the same time); and JAVA WebStart for running Posiedon (UML design tool). Is there any type of file I should be looking for, related to any piece of software, that could increase crash frequency? Thank you for any more detailed recommendations, then I'll leave you all to 10.2 upgrades. By the way, I love the list. I'm learning a lot. I'm trying to decide if I might be able to eventually pick up maintaining the Fink mySQL package. It's just all so new to me. Sincere regards, Marc ----- On 26/9/02 5:19 PM, "Fernando Pereira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/26/02 9:35 AM, "Marc Trudeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Finally, my question(s): Anyone know the nature of, cause of, and/or >> solution for this error pattern? Is this Kernel Panic? (I found no reference >> to "KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS" in the list archive.) > > This is a garden variety application crash, not a kernel panic. A kernel > panic causes everything to come to a halt and an immediate reboot. In > general, in a Unix-based system, an application cannot cause the whole > system to crash, with two exceptions: applications that tickle a kernel bug > (not so common), and applications like some Norton utilities that add their > own kernel modules (I stay away from those myself; a Unix kernel is > typically very stable, but I don't trust most third parties to know what > they are doing when they add a kernel module). > > Back to your error message. It means that an application tried to access a > virtual memory address outside its address space. This is caught by the > kernel and the application is terminated. Why the application is failing is > another story. It will depend on the application, version, etc. > > -- F > -- Marc C. Trudeau Principal M & T Solutions 2001 Donna Ave. Endicott, NY 13760 Phone: 607-754-1500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "...I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
