Re: Installation aborted abnormally - signal 9

["Bill Middlecamp Jr." <wjm sgi com>]

Signal 9 is SIGKILL. I'm just getting started with Linux, so this may
be wrong, but in UNIX this signal is sent to a process when an executable
file has a good header, so the kernel starts executing it, but then the
kernel discovers that the rest of the file is corrupt.


> Wayne Fool wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was trying to install RH6.0 on my 486 with 20 M RAM and 500 meg hard
> > drive.  I want to use  it for a print server.  When I start the install
> > program, I get the message "Installation aborted abnormally -Signal 9"
> > Then it shuts down.  I read the faq on this and found reference to
> > signal 7 and signal 11, but what is signal 9?  What can I do to get RH
> > 6.0 to run on my 486DX33.  Thanks for your help in advance.
> > 
> 
> 
>   Off the top of my head I can't rememebr exactly what sig 9 means. 
> (Too early, too little tea.)  It's often a hardware problem.  I suspect
> that you have a bad simm, try removing 2 of your memory modules and try
> again.  It could also be a bad motherboard or cpu, but I'd doubt that.
> 
> -- 
> Yesterday it worked
> Today it is not working
> Windows is like that.
> Samuel Flory sflory varesearch com
> 
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