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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!digex.com!news.intercon.com!psinntp!sbcs.sunysb.edu!stark.UUCP!gene From: gene@cs.sunysb.edu!stark (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: bad block.memtop (?) Date: 1 May 93 05:13:20 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <GENE.93May1051320@stark.uucp> References: <1ro8ep$2fo@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <1993Apr29.115727.26505@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> <1rrjr4$6dp@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: stark.uucp In-reply-to: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de's message of 30 Apr 1993 16:24:04 GMT In article <1rrjr4$6dp@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes: > In article <1993Apr29.115727.26505@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl>, rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes: > > >kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes: > > > > > >]When doing a cd to a certain directory, I always get > > > >]free(2c108) bad block.memtop = 2c800 membot = 23504. > > [stuff deleted] > I have a 486/33 8MB 200 MB IDE. 5MB swap one partitition for everything else. I'm running X386 (ET4000 server), hand patched 0.1 (wdc0/fdc0 patch, some patches required to run X11). Very often I get a csh coredump and/or the Xserver > dies. This "bad block.memtop" message only seems to appear when I'm running > X with a csh in xterm. I just tried to reproduce the error logging in over telnetd and the problem does not seem to appear. I believe this error is from the shell, and is a very old error that was fixed in the first patchkit. I suspect that you did not recompile the shell and/or C libraries after patching. You really should be using at least patchkit 0.2. This is the first reasonably stable version, in my opinion. Getting the patchkit and installing it would be well worth your while. - Gene Stark -- stark@cs.sunysb.edu