>>>>> "John" == John Maheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> Hi all: I'm fairly new to linux. Lately I've been getting a John> lot of fatal signal 11's. John> It seems to occur when my system has been up for a few days John> under light load or up a day under a heavier load, running John> some job in the background for about 24 hours. Then I get, John> compiling using g77 (I had been running memtest in the John> background for about 18 hours): I had exactly the problem you describe, and it turned out to be a stuck CPU fan. I had been cooking french fries in my small apartment, and the vapor from the oil gummed up the CPU fan. I was able fix it with some WD-40 (a light machine oil that comes in an aerosol can with a tube in the squirter to restrict the spray into droplets.) sprayed into the fan... I shut down the computer, and opened the case. Then, I unplugged the power from all of the drives and the motherboard, and lifted the lever to pull out the CPU with its attached fan. I took the fan off of the CPU, (breaking one foot-hook off the mount, but it still works.) and with the fan being the only thing plugged into the power supply, turn on the main switch. The fan would not spin; I spun it with my finger, and it started for a second, then quit again. I sprayed WD-40 inside, being careful not to drip on the computer's guts. I used enough so it dripped clean, and turned it on again, and got it started. It began spinning on its own, while I tilted it back and forth to spread the lubricant inside it. After I turned it back off, I wiped it clean with a towel, so it wouldn't drip inside the computer thus frying my CPU, and put everything back together again. (Discovering that the socket7 is so designed as to make it impossible to insert the CPU the wrong way. Good thing!) The sig11's quit happening. -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.30t Have you seen the Emperor's new red hat? :-o -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .