[mythtv] segfaults during make if I do not reboot first

aaron aiperl at rogers.com
Mon Feb 24 23:23:46 EST 2003


On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:25:07 -0500 spake Isaac of:

> On Monday 24 February 2003 09:52 pm, Adrian Burden wrote:
> > Not sure if this is important, but I have found that recently if I do
> > not reboot befre I make the latest CVS I get segfaults in make like the
> > following.
> 
> Kind of sounds like you've got a stick of bad RAM, or compiling after the 
> machine's warmed up enough is overheating things.

Or perhaps he's running into the same problems I was, and the kernel is
oopsing (but not totally dying) after some driver has corrupted memory.

I'm still not sure what changed in Myth recently that the memory corruption is
suddenly not happening anymore... but it sure is nice. :)

aaron


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