Hi

I have just tried a full installation of Slackware 9.1 on my second
machine, but half way through installing the packages the setup program
exited with a Segmentation fault, and wouldn't load untill I rebooted
the machine. Here is the machine spec:

AMD K6-III 450MHz
TMC AI5VG+ mobo with 512KB PB cache
128MB PC100 RAM
ATI 3D Rage IIC 4MB AGP graphics
Maxtor Fireball 3 30GB hard drive @ Primary Master
256MB swap partition
Promise Ultra100TX2 IDE card (Not used at the mo as slackware can't seem
to use it so hard disk is currently on mobo IDE controller)
Quantum Fireball ST 2.1GB hard drive @ Primary Slave
Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 sound card
50X CTX CD-ROM drive.


Did the machine simply run out of memory - is my swap partition too
small - or is it something else??

There is 128MB physical RAM and 256MB swap memory.

Thanks
Steven Graham

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:29:13 +0000, Steven Graham wrote:

> Did the machine simply run out of memory - is my swap partition too
> small - or is it something else??

Not enough information. What is your partitioning like? What package
was being installed at the crash?

> There is 128MB physical RAM and 256MB swap memory.

That's fine.

Jim

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Steven Graham <srg@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> I have just tried a full installation of Slackware 9.1 on my second
> machine, but half way through installing the packages the setup
> program exited with a Segmentation fault, and wouldn't load untill
> I rebooted the machine.

If it segfaults at random points, it's your machine (probably dodgy
memory, try reseating the sticks).
If it segfaults at the same point (i.e. at the same package),
double-check the MD5SUM of your downloaded ISO images.

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Steven Graham <srg@dsl.pipex.com> says...

>I have just tried a full installation of Slackware 9.1 on my second
>machine, but half way through installing the packages the setup program
>exited with a Segmentation fault, and wouldn't load untill I rebooted
>the machine.

Unless someone here comes up with a fix, I suggest that you test
your memory: I like http://www.memtest86.com/ (Don't forget to
make a small donation to support open source software!)


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Guy Macon wrote:

> Steven Graham <srg@dsl.pipex.com> says...
>
>
>>I have just tried a full installation of Slackware 9.1 on my second
>>machine, but half way through installing the packages the setup program
>>exited with a Segmentation fault, and wouldn't load untill I rebooted
>>the machine.
>
>
> Unless someone here comes up with a fix, I suggest that you test
> your memory: I like http://www.memtest86.com/ (Don't forget to
> make a small donation to support open source software!)
>
>

Ok, I have run memtest86 (allways a good test) on my machine and its fine.

I have a 20GB Partition for linux formatted as reiserfs (because of its
speed)
I have a 256MB swap partition.

I also on this machine have a 4GB partition with Windows Me on it for
running older win 9x software.

This time it crashed when I was trying to set the up the Real time
clock, past the package installing part. This is random.

Steven Graham

As it is, this machine runs Windows NT and 2000 fine. But I have in the
past with certain hardware found that this motherboard can be unstable
in 2000, espcially with G400 graphics card and the promise Ultra100 car
tat the same time. Maybe rather than dodgy memory it's the mobo.

This afternoon I'm going to try it on another machine, the machine I
will try it on currently runs FreeBSD.

Anyway, why does slackware 9.1 setup crash on a machine that installs
slackware 9.0 fine?

Thanks for you help
Steven Graham

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:29:13 +0000, Steven Graham <srg@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> I have just tried a full installation of Slackware 9.1 on my second
> machine, but half way through installing the packages the setup program
> exited with a Segmentation fault,

On one of the virtual consoles (tty4, I think), there'll be the output
of any commands setup ran; what does that say?


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Steven Graham <srg@dsl.pipex.com> says...

>Anyway, why does Slackware 9.1 setup crash on a machine that installs
>Slackware 9.0 fine?

That's the question that is bothering me. A memory problem could
do that (bad location unused in 9.0, critical in 9.1) but you tested
your memory (and a good chunk of your processor and motherboard).
If it was a marginal CD, I would expect error messages, not crashes.
If it was a problem that happens on lots of different PCs, everyone
here would be talking about it. This one is a real puzzler.

I am grasping at straws here, but are you sure that 9.0 still installs?
Any chance that the PC was good when you installed 9.0 and went bad
just in time to hose your 9.1 install?




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Remember Doc Brown from the _Back to the Future_ movies? Do you
have an "impossible" engineering project that only someone like
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Simon wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:29:13 +0000, Steven Graham <srg@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>I have just tried a full installation of Slackware 9.1 on my second
>>machine, but half way through installing the packages the setup program
>>exited with a Segmentation fault,
>
>
> On one of the virtual consoles (tty4, I think), there'll be the output
> of any commands setup ran; what does that say?
>
>

ok, I have installed slackware 9.1 on another machine, my proper box
that I run *nixes on (This is an Athlon XP 1600+, 256MB RAM) It is
running beautifuly. In fact Slack 9.1 is blazingly fast!!!

I think on the K6-III machine's TMC AI5VG+ mobo was to blame and to be
honest I've had enought with it, in Slack 9.1, Win2000 and XP it's given
me problems.

Anyway, last thing: When playing audio CDs, the cd plays but there is no
sound.

I have a Soundblaster Live! running ALSA driver and the CD Burner is
connected to the sound card vire a normal analog CD cable.

I have run alsaconf but to no avail.

Thanks for the Help!

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 22:06:19 +0000, Steven Graham <srg@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> I have a Soundblaster Live! running ALSA driver and the CD Burner is
> connected to the sound card vire a normal analog CD cable.

Try the digital connector, if there is one. That's the one I had to
use with my Audigy 2 Platinum.


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