Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 04:36:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 04:36:13 -0500 Received: from smtp3.jp.psi.net ([154.33.63.113]:15113 "EHLO smtp3.jp.psi.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 04:35:57 -0500 From: "Rainer Mager" To: "Alan Cox" Cc: Subject: RE: Signal 11 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:05:24 +0900 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Well, I just had a Signal 11 even with the patch. What can I do to help figure this out? Thanks, --Rainer -----Original Message----- From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 11:07 PM To: David Woodhouse Cc: Andi Kleen; Rainer Mager; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Mark Vojkovich Subject: Re: Signal 11 > > wrong with it. I've only seen this under 2.3.x/2.4 SMP kernels. I > > would say that this is definitely a kernel problem.=20 > > XFree86 3.9 and XFree86 4 were rock solid for a _long_ time on 2.[34] > kernels - even on my BP6=B9. The random crashes started to happen when = > I > upgraded my distribution=B2 - and are only seen by people using 2.4. So= > I > suspect that it's the combination of glibc and kernel which is triggeri= > ng > it. Have any of the folks seeing it checked if Ben LaHaise's fixes for the page table updating race help ? Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/