On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> Mark.Gallucci. wrote:
> 
> > Tried again, same thing, except this time followed by an illegal 
> > instruction error, and everything (X, xinit, sh, csh) dumped core... I 
> > thought maybe X has nothing to do, so made .xinitrc in ~:
> > 
> > xterm&
> > fwm
> > 
> > rebooted and tried again. This time it took out the kernel with an 
> > address error. I was able to continue from the debugger, it dumped and 
> > rebooted politely.
> 
> This sounds vaguely like you might have filesystem damage.  Make sure you
> do an fsck.  Also, consider reinstalling the X binaries, although this
> might not be necessary.
> 
> > I've tried a few more times, without changing anything; 3 times it just 
> > went away quietly, 3 times dumped core with seg fault or illegal inst, 2 
> > times crashed hard, once with VM error, once with MMU error.
> > 
> > Any ideas?

Does that machine have an FPU?  If not, are you using the floating point
emulator clean math libs?  I doubt that's the problem, but it's possible. 


David

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