Re: EMC Help

A segmentation fault in linux is due to a bad memory reference, generally a
C pointer which is either NULL or corrupted. You should have gotten a core
dump generated with it. It would be possible to use that to tell what
happened.

-----Original Message-----
From: William Scalione <scalione@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Date: Saturday, September 18, 1999 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC Help

>From: William Scalione <scalione@...>
>
>Jon Elson wrote:
>>
>> From: Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
>>
>> Tim Goldstein wrote:
>>
>> > From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@...>
>> >
>> > Jon,
>> >
>> > I am running Linux and EMC very successsfully on an AMD K6 machine. It

is a

>> > 350 mhz machine with the 2D AMD processor.
>> >
>> > Tim
>> > [Denver, CO]
>> >
>> > > From: Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
>> > > I have a Windows machine with an AMD chip in it (K6). It also will

not

>> > > run Linux. The boot disks will boot up the minimal kernel, but any
>> > program
>> > > you try to run crashes it. So, now when I set up a Linux system, I

always

>> > > make sure it has a REAL Intel Pentium chip of some sort in it.
>>
>> Yup, all these different boxes are making me confused. It WAS the CYRIX
>> cpu that wouldn't run Linux, just like the other person commented.
>> We have 3 different real Intel Pentium machines, and Linux is working

quite

>> well on them. I've had experience with 2 different Cyrix machines, and

both

>> had very wierd problems running Linux. One was absolutely kaput, it

would

>> barely get the kernel unpacked before it panic'ed, the other would run a

little,

>> but crash when you tried to run any major program like a compile, XFree86
>> or such.
>>
>> Sorry for the misinformation, glad to know the AMD does work fine.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>
>Jon;
>
>I had no problem running Linux with my Cyrix 150+,
>no crashes and emc simulation worked great. The problem
>I had was when trying to use shared memory with rtlinux.
>I would get segmentation faults, whatever that means.
>went with an Intel chip and all problems went away.
>
>Bill
>
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