On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Mark Waterhouse wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've recently bought a new machine (from ebay!) and have installed RedHat
> 8.0 on it.
>
> Its running Kernel-2.4.18-14 and was installed via RPM.
>
> However, when running a very simple perl script, I get a segmentation fault
> and the following lines appear in syslog (at bottom of mail).
> The machine is doing nothing fancy .... its running a dhcp-client and
> sendmail.
>
> Is there something in the error messages which indicates where the fault
> maybe?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
> Mark Waterhouse
>
[SNIPPED...]
Many times when the kernel forks another process, it crashes. It
looks like you have one (or more) of the following:
(1) Bad RAM.
(2) Over Clocked.
(3) CPU too hot (wrong heatsink).
(4) Bad board (why somebody got rid of it was on ebay).
Hopefully, it isn't (4). I got a Tyan board off from ebay once.
It was the last time I did that. $135 down the drain. It would
boot DOS/Windows/Linux, then stop.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Bush : The Fourth Reich of America
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