FC6: Things segfaulting all over

[Andy Green]

James Wilkinson wrote:

> If you want to play with kernel parameters, try noacpi. A dodgy ACPI
> implementation on your motherboard could cause problems.

Few more ideas:

  - you can get information about a kernel panic on your text mode 
console, eg, Ctrl-Alt-F1.  Maybe leave the thing like that and wait for 
it to blow (perhaps starting a compile before switching will help 
provoke it).

  - Maybe come up in runlevel 3 and see if it still misbehaves, in case 
it is something to do with your video card / bios / driver.  Neat way to 
do this is press 'a' at the grub prompt, and append the number 3 to the 
kernel commandline for that one boot

  - keep an eye on what

dmesg

outputs, sometimes there can be a clue printed by some driver. 
Likewise, look through the boot messages in there after boot for 
warnings or other ugliness

-Andy