Am Freitag, 4. Januar 2008 10:03 schrieb Steve Atkins:
> On Jan 4, 2008, at 12:44 AM, mljv@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I just want to ask if there is something else
> > besideds
> > hardware failure which could force a signall 4 (ILL)?
>
> Software bugs can on rare occasions (by overwriting return stack data
> and heading off into the weeds, say), but there's no way they'd do
> that in
> multiple processes simultaneously
>
> It's conceivable it was just a transient problem ("a cosmic ray" -
> they really do
> happen occasionally) but it's much more likely you have bad hardware.
> Probably either RAM, disk or disk controller.
thanks a lot for clarifying this so quickly.
kind regards,
Janning
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