[olug] wine problem (fwd)

[alassek at techie.com]

Well, I'm not running a stock kernel, it's a 2.4.3 kernel compiled by me. And I have 256megs of RAM in it, it's not even hitting swap. I'll run memtest but i don't understand why bad ram would only manifest itself while building wine...

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Johnson <eric_j at novia.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:43:04 -0500 (CDT)
To:  <olug at bstc.net>
Subject: Re: [olug] wine problem (fwd)


> Hi,
> 
> 	I remembered a friend had run across this message before and asked
> him about it. Here's his response:
> 
> -- Eric Johnson
> -- eric_j at novia.net
> 
> 
> Eric,
> 
> 	Yes.  The this is the symtom I had.  The stock RedHat 6.2 kernel  that
> came on the disk 2.2.14 (sub revision 5 I think??) caused this problem.
>   My research at the time made the hardware flaw sound like it is the
> more common cause.
> 
> 	I found VMware was the program that alerted me to the bug.  I believe it
> has something to do with when you start to swap a lot.  The bug is in
> the kernel.
> 
> 	The alternative problem which the other reply suggests is described in
> more detail here:
> 
> http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
> 
> If this is the problem it is a hardware flaw.
> 
> The hardware problem could possibly be detected using this:
> 
> http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady/memtest86
> 
> I have never actually had this find a memory flaw, but then I don't
> think I have ever had flawed memory.  It will take a day or two to run
> on the full checking mode, but it is the best I have seen.  You can run
> it quicker but it is less pedantic in the checking.
> 
> 		Hope this helps,
> 				Kirby
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Eric Johnson wrote:
> > Didn't you have this problem compiling our software? It was a compiler or
> > kernel bug, wasn't it?
> >
> > -- Eric Johnson
> > -- eric_j at novia.net
> >
> > It is not through the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker
> > that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interests.
> >
> > Adam Smith
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: 11 Sep 2001 21:56:10 -0500
> > From: Phil Brutsche <phil at giedi.obix.com>
> > Reply-To: olug at bstc.net
> > To: olug <olug at bstc.net>
> > Subject: Re: [olug] wine problem
> >
> > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 19:41, Adam Lassek wrote:
> >
> >>perhaps someone here knows how to fix this. When I try to compile Wine I get
> >>this error:
> >>
> >>gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
> >>
> >>any idea what's wrong?
> >>
> >
> > First guess: hardware.  Memory, specifically.
> >
> > If you can, swap in some memory from another computer and try it again.
> >
> > If you don't have another computer, replace the memory outright.  A
> > 256MB stick is $35.  A 128 MB stick is near $20; 64MB is even cheaper.
> >
> > They don't make SDRAM smaller than 64MB, unfortunately.
> >
> > This is all Crucial (aka Micron) and Kingston memory, BTW.  The generic,
> > no-name stuff is even cheaper.
> >
> >
> 
> 
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