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Re: RE: Signal 11 error



On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:39:26PM +0000, Yashpal  Nagar merrily said:
> Hi,
>   If you were installing text mode try by graphical mode and wise versa, 
> Also look at ctrl-alt-f2...f5 for the problems while installing...it might be that your CD is corrupted :-(
> 

In our case, it had once been the memory. Sometimes hidden in all the
mess during the installation abort, we could see the Oops dump of the
kernel. In such a case try searching for the keyword "process:
xxxx". In our case the process causing the kernel dump was kswapd, so
we figured it was either the disk or the memory. Since the disk was
formatted a number of times successfully, it couldn't have been the
disk. So, we changed the memory and it worked ...

- Sandip


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