man 7 signal on my system shows:
Signal Value Action Comment
SIGEMT 7,-,7 G
action G refers to:
G Not a POSIX.1 conformant signal.
now, a bit of brief digging has unearthed the following hypothesis:
it occurs when you can't get a free page in memory
I found the following on a page at
http://www.angelfire.com/ar/favaloro1/faqs1.html and ran it throug the
spanish to english translator on altavista (hence it's not the most
perfect translation). this seems to be what we are looking for:
-----snippet
2,8 Aid! it says signal signal to me 11 / 7 during the installation!
Situation 1: If during the installation obtens these messages is an
indication of corruption of the memory in the bus or the best one of
the cases than the distribution and/or the floppy disks of
installation they are corrupt. If the problem still persists having a
distribution in good state, the then problem is the hardware.
Situation 2: Let us suppose that during the compilation of kernel a
signal error 7 or 11 takes place. In order to assure to us as it is
the problem we followed these steps:
1 If make stops, volve to tipear make, if it compiles a pair of lines
and one becomes to stop the problem probably is hardware
2 there If make stops with the message " nothing to be donates " then
tries the following thing:
dd if=/dev/HARD_DISK of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=MEGS
where hard disk is the name of your rigido disc ej hda and MEGS is the
amount of megaytes of your disc, this force to read the archives
source C and the binary GCC of the disc, after doing this runs make
again and if make stops in the same place in which the problem stopped
before probably it is of software (GCC or archives source C) But if it
stops in another place, that is if make stops the problem randomly can
be in a bad transference disc --- ram
----End Snippet
so it seems to be a problem with the memory, or more likely a problem with
the bus. (I personally have a suspicion that the actual board doesn't
handle paging properly for some reason, but I could be dead wrong)
that's about all I can offer on the subject, I hope it helps
Chris.
remember: catch a taxi instead
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:54:23AM -0500, Edward Schernau wrote:
> > I too am getting Signal 7 during 6.1 installs
> > onto a 486. I _also_ get Signal 7 crashes when I try to
> > compile ssh on a 486.
> >
> > I wonder what Signal 7 is??
>
> man 7 signal lists most signals -- but no info on 7 for some reason
> (at least on my 6.1 version).
>
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