Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > Woooahhh!!! I just swapped the two 4MB SIMMs to each other's slots. > > After rebooting, I can no longer cause the seg faulting. (And I *have* > > rebooted the machine before without curing the problem). Might be bad > > memory! ;-) (Or even bad seating?) > > It would be sensitive to bad memory yes, if it corrupts its output once > then it will save that to disk and do it again and again.. Looks like I > need to put in a segv handler that will erase the cache files. > For those of you who hate loose ends:
apt-get did start segfaulting again after I had swapped the SIMMs. memtest86 showed a shitload of errors on that machine, such that I doubted if it was valid (I mean, how could *anything* have even worked???). However, a better machine (486DX/66 this time, real high-tech stuff...) got freed up and I wholesale moved the disks and everything over to it (its memory tested out good with memtest86). So far, I can't get it to segfault however many times I run apt-get update. Looking good... :-) Thanks to all who helped. If nothing else, now I have a nice memory test boot disk.
