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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!not-for-mail From: bill@qstools.com (Bill Cox) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Strange new errors with 32mb upgrade Date: 15 Jul 1996 00:13:36 GMT Organization: Sirius Cybernetics, Sirius City branch Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4sc2fg$h2p@news.scruz.net> References: <4sbhat$q7c@skydiver.jaguNET.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.179.159.64 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Sean Emery (emerys@confucius.omniscient.com) wrote: : Hello all, I have been getting several strange effects after adding some : memory to my system. (total of 48mb now.) : : First thing I noticed is that vi (and it's derivitives nvi, etc.) and talk : would core dump upon invocation. reboot fixed. : : Second thing, find command always produced a bus error. Reboot fixed. : : Third thing, a 'du' locked up my system and necessitated manual fsck'ing : upon reboot. : : Fourth thing, X sometimes exits prematurely with a buserror or segfault. : Not usually on its own, though, when I've done something (new window or : something) to upset it. After this happens, X exits almost immediately : with the same error when restarted (until reboot, of course.) : : Fifth thing, have rebooted my machine left the room to get a coke and : returned to find it rebooting again... weird, huh? : Yep, sounds like bad hardware to me. If memory's the most recent hardware addition/change that you've made, I'd just take the new SIMMs back out for a couple of days. -- Bill Cox Software Janitor Raise taxes to cover the deficit? Are you *crazy*?? They'll spend 1.3 times the amount we allocate them, no matter how much it is. And you and I keep re- electing them!