Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miklos Szeredi) | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:38:58 +0100 (MET) | Subject | Re: VIA C3 and random SIGTRAP or segfault |
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Thanks, I'll check that out, though I'm a bit sceptical since the crashes occur randomly not predictably, and that makes me feel it's not because of an unimplemented instruction.
Also what about trace/breakpoint trap? Can that be also generated by an illegal instruction?
Thanks, Miklos
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:29:01AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > I just bought a VIA C3 866 processor, and under very special > > circumstances some programs (e.g. mplayer, xmms) randomly crash with > > trace/breakpoint trap or segmentation fault. Otherwise the system > > seems stable even under high load. > > Be sure that those programs aren't compiled for 686. The C3 lacks > cmov, so it'll segfault when it hits that opcode. You can confirm > this by running it under gdb, and disassembling where it segv's to. > This is still a common problem thats biting some people. The debian > folks had a broken libssl for months up until recently.
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