From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Apr 15 6: 4:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE4714CCF; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 06:04:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA10966; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:02:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA92573; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:02:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:02:24 -0400 (EDT) To: "Gary Palmer" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ignore previous problem w/buildworld In-Reply-To: <37505.924142617@noop.colo.erols.net> References: <37505.924142617@noop.colo.erols.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14101.58021.305498.377970@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gary Palmer writes: > > Ignore the previous problem I posted where buildworld was seeing > coredumps. Seems that I had a bad kernel build. A new kernel has fixed > the problem. Now running on an egcs world & kernel without noticable > problems. You may want to test any backups you've made with an EGCS built dump. For me, an egcs built dump seems to produce corrupt dumps. Building the same sources with gcc yields a dump which produces usable dumps. I've been unable to figure out why. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message