Without knowing anything definite, I'd say the latest RedHat is buggy.
We recently upgraded to a dual processor board, and attempted to get smp
working. After odd crashes continued, we reverted back to a previous
version of RedHat have succesfully run smp. No idea if this is anyway
related, but it might be a clue...
Fafhrd of Duris
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Mym the Incarnation of War wrote:
> upgraded from Red Hat Linux 3.3 to Red Hat Linux 4.0. Since then, my
> mud has been crashing a lot in olc. Code was not changed. The only thing
> that changed was the system. I've narrowed the problem down to the
> exact function calls that are crashing it. In each of the
> ?edit_save_internally functions, free(whatever) is causing the crash. I can
> comment out this and it won't crash, but that's a bad line to comment out
> if you know anything about coding. Free() is a library function and nothing
> I can mess with. Anyone ever heard of anything like this or have any ideas
> that I can try? I've tried a complete recompile and ran configure again. All
> this with no luck. Now I turn to my fellow admins.
>
> --Mym, the Incarnation of War
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