Andi,
It's related to some change in 2.4 vs. 2.2. There are other programs
affected other than X, SSH also get's spurious signal 11's now and again
with 2.4 and glibc <= 2.1 and it does not occur on 2.2.
Jeff
Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -Andi
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