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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!brushtail.hna.com.au!ringtail.hna.com.au!mjm From: mjm@hna.com.au.MOOSE (Matt McLeod) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2.2.1, SIGBUS, and SIGSEGV Date: 7 Jun 1997 07:48:28 GMT Organization: Hunter Network Association, Newcastle, Australia Lines: 30 Message-ID: <slrn5pi4ic.11o.mjm@ringtail.hna.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.hna.com.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42563 I'm in the process of getting a new mail/news server up and running, with 2.2.1. Everything runs fine for a while, then processes start dying. Initially it was just mutt (which kept dying with a SIGBUS), but after a reboot, bash started SIGSEGV'ing as soon as it was started. Other stuff (like qmail and INN) kept chugging away happily. We've had some problems with this box before, but most of it has been replaced, and I had been hoping that the hardware problems were gone. Anyway, I've disabled the external CPU cache just in case that's the problem, and it hasn't fallen over yet, but it's only been a few hours... Are there any other likely causes of this sort of problem? The hardware: Cyrix 5x86 (on a 486 PCI board, Award PnP BIOS) 1 x EIDE hard drive 1 x NCR 53c810 PCI SCSI controller 1 x 7 disk CD changer (SCSI) 1 x SCSI tape drive 16Mb EDO RAM some el-cheapo ISA Trident video card (the box runs headless). Are there known problems with 2.2.1 and any of this stuff? Thanks. -- Matt McLeod, <mjm(at)hna.com.au> "Please try to understand before one of us dies".