This morning, the desktop has frozen twice (can still ping the box). A reboot was needed both times. Should I repost to devel or test? I need to know whether to look for hw or sw problems. I could enable core dumps using ulimit, but would I find the problem by poking through core dumps? Where can I add 'ulimit -c 1000000' so it will affect all exe's, maybe in rc.local? cheers -- Rick On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 rfedora@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Several apps are crashing almost at the same time! > > FC3 2.6.9-1.667 installed from ISO's > > This was a stable solid system until yum update to 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 > > About an hour after booting I get segmentation faults and > illegal instruction crashes from firefox, mozilla, yum, bug-buddy, .. > I used strace to find out how far they get, and saw pages of trace before > the crashes > (the tails of the traces are below) > > I have disabled screensavers and power saving mode. > > At times, the desktop icons would be gone and there would be no > right-click menu. > > Sometimes the desktop would freeze. > Sometimes in this state the machine can still respond to pings. > memtest86 shows no hardware errors, but it might not be testing things > like MMU, disk controller, .. > HP P4 1.6Ghz 512 Mbyte > > Might it be a problem with prelink? > > Should I revert to the FC3 ISO's? > > This may be a kernel bug, and if so > I would like to help track it down. > How would I go about narrowing down the fault? -- Rick Leir 613-828-8289 -> rick http://www.leirtech.com/rick/ AT leirtech DOT com Use FuelLog. Tune up your vehicle.
