On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Jeffrey Ingber wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I have a recurring problem with seemingly random Signal 11's
> with any
> version of XFree86 in the 4.x series. 3.3.6 series servers do not suffer
> from the following problem.
>
> I have run all releases of XFree86 4.0 - 4.1.0 (and every release
> inbetween) on the following hardware configurations throught the
> development cycle, on several different distributions (SuSE, RH, and
> Slackware). After a random amount of time - sometimes minutes,
> sometimes days, the server will die with a Signal 11:
>
> Dell PowerEdge 6300 (Quad Xeon 500) with ATI Rage 128
> IBM Netfinity 5600 (Dual PIII 667) with Matrox MMS Quad Monitor
> Tyan Tunderbolt S1873UANG-R (Dual PIII 600) with Matrox Marvel G400
I'll bet it goes away if you don't use a 2.4 SMP kernel.
That is, use a 2.4 UP kernel or a 2.2 UP/SMP kernel.
Mark.
>
> I have gone to great lengths to try and isolate the problem - which I
> don't beleive is hardware related. All systems are running within
> specifications and are fairly new systems.
>
> I would like to know if anyone else is experiencing these problems, and
> if so, what steps did you take to correct it? Also, if anyone has
> similar hardware, I would like to know if you are *not* having these
> problems. I've posted on various related message boards and nobody
> seems to be aware of these problems. I can't beleive these are the only
> systems experiencing this problems, as each one is quite different from
> the others, and are running more-or-less stock Linux distributions.
>
> Thanks for listening.
> Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com)
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