Why all my application giving me core dumped error?

[Suhaimi Jamalludin]

Hi  Matthew,

Really appreciate your advice....
I also have check with my friends here....he also suspect that it might 
be hardware memory problem.


Regards,
Suhaimi

Matthew Seaman wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:58:13AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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>>On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:45:11PM +0800, Suhaimi Jamalludin wrote:
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>>>I got some question regarding FreeBSD.
>>>Today I just install FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE from CD. Then  I cvsup port-all 
>>>tag=. to the current one and complete the portupgrade -arR for update.
>>>I want to setup LDAP+SAMBA3. Then I install all the required ports. Then 
>>>After I install samba-devel. my system going crazy it give me all these 
>>>core dumped error.
>>>
>>>A) Why this happen?
>>>B) How to check what is wrong with my system?
>>>
>>>Can some body advice me...Please....
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>>Either you have hardware problems, or (and this seems to me more
>>likely in this case) you chose the wrong time to pull down the
>>5-CURRENT sources.
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>Ooops.  I'm sorry -- I misread your e-mail.  You cvsuped ports to
>HEAD, which is correct, and not the system as I seemed to have accused
>you of doing.  Apologies.
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>I'm afraid that means the bad hardware theory is prime suspect.  It
>does sound like you've blown a memory chip or some such.  You can try
>running a few passes of memtest86 -- see http://www.memtest86.com/ --
>which will confirm the failure if it finds anything wrong.  Swap out
>memory sticks to see if you can isolate the problem.
>
>What I said about 5-CURRENT and the various releases in my previous
>messages is correct, but irrelevant.  However, once you've got your
>system running stably again, do think about cvsup'ing and upgrading to
>5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 (which you can do in a sing make buildworld cycle
>from 5.2-RELEASE I should think, as they are both taken from the
>RELENG_5_2 branch).  There have been some nasty security bugs
>announced recently, and 5.2.1 was released in part because of some
>nasty (non-security) bugs in 5.2.
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>	Cheers,
>
>	Matthew
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