Re: Problem with kernels 2.3.43/4/5

Manfred Spraul (manfreds@colorfullife.com)
Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:19:06 +0100

Rui Sousa wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing programs failing with segmentation fault while loading.
> I first noticed the problem with kernel-2.3.43.
> I've seen it happen with netscape and vi, which work ok with other
> kernel versions. Also the problem seems to happen while still executing
> the ld-linux library code.
>
> [...]
>
> Dual PII, SMP kernel, 128 Mb.
>

Ok, these kernel produce random segfaults on some SMP computers. Could
you describe the problem: does netscape always crash, or only sometimes?

It seems that there is a sector read problem: sometimes the sectors are
read correctly, and the program loads, sometimes a wrong sector is read,
and then netscape/vi always crashes until you reboot.

--
	Manfred




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