From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: ebuddington@wesleyan.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 386 'ls' gets SIGILL iff /proc is mounted
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:09:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AC09F14.53D06AC7@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010327012709.I59@sparrow.nad.adelphia.net>
Eric Buddington wrote:
>
> 2.4.2-ac23 nfsroot on a 386SX/20 with 6Mb RAM
>
> On boot to single user, 'ls' and 'ls -l' work fine.
>
> After mounting /proc, 'ls' still works, but 'ls -l' fails
> with SIGILL after reading /etc/timezone (so says strace).
>
> Unmounting /proc fixes the problem. Unmounting /dev doesn't.
>
> I also, just now, had a spate of 'permission denied' errors
> while trying to ls /dev/ subdirectories, and unexpected stale NFS handles.
>
> The problems are varied enough that I suspect bad hardware, but would
> flaky RAM cause such similar failures repeatedly? And is there a way
> to test RAM explicitly?
>
> Any tips appreciated, either to me (ebuddington@wesleyan.edu) or to
> the list.
Silly question, but is math emulation enabled?
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-27 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-27 6:27 386 'ls' gets SIGILL iff /proc is mounted Eric Buddington
2001-03-27 14:09 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2001-03-27 14:12 ` Eric Buddington
2001-03-27 14:22 ` Brian Gerst
[not found] ` <20010328124845.I80@sparrow.nad.adelphia.net>
[not found] ` <m3wv99vk8o.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com>
2001-03-29 15:05 ` Eric Buddington
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