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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.mathworks.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Corrupt /usr partition with signal 11 error Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 18:05:52 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 20 Message-ID: <338B84F0.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> References: <338B336A.5EAE@maindrag.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Juan Lorenzana <juan@maindrag.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41759 Juan Lorenzana wrote: > I need some help in determining the cause of a problem. We have a > fairly new system with FreeBSD 2.1.5. Every week, we our machine > basically dies. /usr get's unmounted and the whole partition becomes > corrupt. We loose everything in /usr. The machine is used as a web This, coupled with this: > May 24 05:46:17 global /kernel: pid 14257 (perl), uid 1004: exited on > signal 11 Really indicates some bad hardware. Pare the memory down to what you really feel is good and then swap the motherboard's cache, possibly the entire motherboard itself. That really does sound like the area of your troubles. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.