more info Re: [lug] wierd rh7.2 install failure

[D. Stimits]

Kevin Fenzi wrote:
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> >>>>> "Hugh" == Hugh Brown <hugh at vecna.com> writes:
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> Hugh> from man 7 signal SIGSEGV 11 C Invalid memory reference
> Hugh> looks like the installer segfaulted.
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> Sig11's are usually indicitve of a hardware problem...
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> Hugh> On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 16:04, luke p wrote:
> >> I went through again and this time said a 'signal 11' after the
> >> 'install exited abnormally' what is that and what can be done?
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> see:
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> http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
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> Often it's faulty main memory, cache memory, or cpu....

FYI, kernel compiles and large compression or decompression (as used
during install) are rather sensitive to this. A machine that I had which
was doing signal 11 during install always died during a file
decompression, and turned out to be a bad DIMM module. Non-signal 11
failures seemed to be cured by doing text mode installs, I'd bet on bad
main memory.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

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