greetings, running Centos 4.1 i386 on a poweredge 1800, will be trying x86_64 tomorrow since apparently the processors are EM64. anyhow, I'm having issues with this unit producing segmentation faults on practically everything. this is not an issue just with Centos 4.x, but also RHEL 3. so I resorted to RH9, but had other issues with hardware drivers.
Today, I installed OS and everything went smoothly, to a point. this server will ultimately be used for a point of sale application called counterpoint.
What I did was install the app (worked great), installed an sql interface to the db (worked great). added some data to the db and posted sales. This is where I have the continual problems with linux. as soon it starts the posting, in another windows I did a ps -ef and got Segmentation fault, dmesg produces the same error. top still works, but thats about it. now, from experience, I know that if I reboot the system - I'll get many errors and segmenation faults and then when the login comes back up where the name of the server is will be () login:
I'm guessing there is going to be no way around reinstalling this box, but I trying to remain hopeful that there is a better solution.
thanks. cameron
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 at 5:07pm, Cameron Showalter wrote
What I did was install the app (worked great), installed an sql interface to the db (worked great). added some data to the db and posted sales. This is where I have the continual problems with linux. as soon it starts the posting, in another windows I did a ps -ef and got Segmentation fault, dmesg produces the same error. top still works, but thats about it. now, from experience, I know that if I reboot the system - I'll get many errors and segmenation faults and then when the login comes back up where the name of the server is will be () login: I'm guessing there is going to be no way around reinstalling this box, but I trying to remain hopeful that there is a better solution.
I'd be strongly suspicious of bad hardware -- CPU, RAM, or motherboard most likely. Test 'em all, thoroughly. Swap components if you can. Run memtest86+, Dell's diagnostics, etc.
running Centos 4.1 i386 on a poweredge 1800, will be trying x86_64 tomorrow since apparently the processors are EM64. anyhow, I'm having issues with this unit producing segmentation faults on practically everything. this is not an issue just with Centos 4.x, but also RHEL 3. so I resorted to RH9, but had other issues with hardware drivers. Today, I installed OS and everything went smoothly, to a point. this server will ultimately be used for a point of sale application called counterpoint.
we once had a box that did just that - everything segfaulted - Turned out to be bad CPU
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