Re: help ld[signal 11]

[Andrew Lees <andrewl at acay dot com dot au>]

On Fri, 18 May 2001 07:17, David Berthelot wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > On May 17, 2001, "sumeer.k" <sumeer.k@enmail.com> wrote:
> > > ld terminated with signal 11 [segmentation fault]
> >
> > This usually means there's a bug in the linker.  GCC is a compiler;
> > the linker is often supplied by the OS provider, unless you're using
> > GNU ld, that's part of GNU binutils.
>
> Sometimes it can also be due to your RAM if it has failures.
> I experienced that by the past, the test at the boot was saying the
> memory was ok, but when doing some heavy tasks, big compilations
> or links, there were unexplained and random signal 11... I changed
> the memory and the problem disappeared.
>
> David

You could try using Memtest86 from

http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86

to check you memory thoroughly.  And there is a kernel patch available to 
allow operation with a bad memory chip.

Andrew Lees