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[andrew at acooke.org]

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a follow-up to close (hopefully) this thread.

i couldn't repeat the error on other platforms (windows + rh9) and
started to become suspicious that my system was unstable (it's been
rock solid for years).  first suspect was the kernel, but compiling a
kernel triggered another error and then a bios warning - turns out
that a fan has failed on the motherboard.  so i guess that the memory
problems are related to overheating (memcheck86 didn't detect any
problems).  no bug to report here.  thanks for the help from various
people via email.
if anyone happens to know of a source of replacement chipset fans for
AOpen mobos in S America I'd be grateful for a contact... ;-/

cheers,
andrew

andrew cooke said:
>
> no, i'm not sure it's segfaulting (i should have used a less
specific > term), but i am seeing memory related errors.  i've had
messages in the > syslog that describes a null pointer passed to the
kernel and i've also > just seen an error on stderr that says
>
> internal error: evacuate: strange closure type 39216
>     Please report this as a bug to
glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org, >     or
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/ >
> the trouble is that when if first got the error with ghc5, i
updated my > system.  not only ghc, but also a slew of other
packages.  now i'm worried > that there are two different errors (one
possibly related to X or > Mozilla), or even that ghc is merely the
victim of an error in some other > program.
>
> i'm about to run the program on windows, using the parameters that
gave > that message, to see if i can reproduce it.  so far my
attempts to > restrict the program scope and repeat the error have
failed. >
> once i'm a little clearer on what's happening i'll file a bug
report.  i > just wondered whether there was any way of getting the
system to give more > informative errors when it dies (eg recompiling
ghc in some kind of debug > mode).
>
> cheers,
> andrew
>
> ps.  just got a segmentation fault re-running the code that
previously > gave the error above :o/
>
> Volker Stolz said:
>
>> In local.glasgow-haskell-users, you wrote:
>>> I have a ghc program that appears to be causing a memory error
(either >>> segfaulting or tripping up X and killing my session).
>>
>> Are you sure it's segfaulting? You might simply run low on memory
and >> your system starts killing processes to free up memory.
>> Maybe you can find more details in the syslog.
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>>
>>
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