I have a Dell Precision 350 with a Dell M782 monitor, ATi Radeon 7000 driver, and a General 3 buttons USB mouse.
The system arrived with RH 8.0. I upgraded the system to RH 9.0 and started adding patches. During the patch upgrade
"Segmentation fault"
came up. When I then tried various commands such as "finger", "shutdown", "reboot" and any "rpm" command I got "Segmentation fault." There were just a few commands that still worked.
I shutdown the computer and tried to reboot, but received the following errors:
Init Entering runlevel 5: Init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes. ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... x Init: no more processes left in this runlevel.
When I tried to boot from the RH cd to go into "linux rescue", I was unable to respond to the first screen that asked a question. The keyboard did not seem connect to the system. This would occur about 10 out of 11 tries.
I have been able to boot from the RH cd and re-install the system. I am now going through the procedure for the third time. The second clean install to RH 9 was successful but in the middle of the patch upgrades, the system went into the "Segmentation fault" state. I had been using medium security on the system allowing ssh in.
I have gone through the diagnostic tests which come a cd with the Dell station. The system passes every test.
The patches that I was adding I have added to about 15 other systems without a problem. The freeze up occurred the last time on the patches
lv-4.49.4-9.9.1.i386.rpm LPRng-3.8.19-3.1.i386.rpm mod_ssl-2.0.40-21.1.i386.rpm mysql-3.23.56-1.9.i386.rpm mod_ssl-2.0.40-21.3.i386.rpm mysql-devel-3.23.56-1.9.i386.rpm mutt-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm mysql-server-3.23.56-1.9.i386.rpm
I use "rpm -Fvh l* L* m*" to upgrade the software.
The system has not had any long processes on it except the upgrades and use of mozilla.
Any ideas as to what is causing the problem?
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