Fwd: Re: [vox-tech] debian woody to sarge upgrade = dead xserver: solved

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ken Bloom (kabloom at ucdavis.edu):

> I don't think that's correct. Signal 11 is better known as SIGSEGV, and
> it is a segmentation fault usually caused by a programmer dereferencing
> an uninitialized pointer (or a deleted pointer). It's entirely a
> programmer error.

Well, congratulations on encountering so little bad RAM.  ;->  Our
experience differs.

Quoting (selectively) a small piece of the SIG 11 FAQ:

 QUESTION

   Ok. I may have a hardware problem what is it?

 ANSWER

   If it happens to be the hardware it can be:

    * Main memory.
    [...]