Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 8 Dec 2000 02:20:44 +0100 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: Signal 11 |
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:44:29AM +0900, Rainer Mager wrote: > I recently upgraded to a new machine. It is running RedHat 6.2 Linux (with > a SMP 2.4.0test[8-11] kernel) and has a Matrox G400 in it. X is 4.0.1. > Anyway, about once every 2-3 days X will spontaneously die and the only info > I get back is that it was because of signal 11. > I've heard that signal 11 can be related to bad hardware, most often > memory, but I've done a good bit of testing on this and the system seems ok. > What I did was to run the VA Linux Cerberos(sp?) test for 15 hours+ with no > errors. Actually this only worked when running from the console. When > running from X the machine locked up (although no signal 11). > The only info I've gotten back from the XFree86 mailing lists so far is > that there are known and wide spread problems with SMP and these types of > problems. Can anyone comment on this? Are there known SMP problems? What is > the current resolution plan?
signal 11 just means that the program crashed with a segmentation fault.
Sounds like a X Server bug. You should probably contact XFree86, not linux-kernel
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