From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 20 10: 4: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 728B137B516 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: (from ler@localhost) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.10.1/8.10.1/20000616) id e5KH3oF27201; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:03:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman Message-Id: <200006201703.e5KH3oF27201@lerami.lerctr.org> Subject: Re: Desperate : make buildworld NEVER works!!!!! In-Reply-To: "from Mike Andrews at Jun 20, 2000 12:58:06 pm" To: Mike Andrews Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:03:50 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL79 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG And make sure you have enough power. My AMD K6-2 550 had wierd problems till I got a beefier power supply and new case. Also check the timings as Kevin suggests. Now it runs nicely (see http://www.lerctr.org/~ler/SetiStatus.html for an idea on whats at my place). Larry Rosenman > > "Kevin Oberman" writes: > > > > > It seems odd that we have had at least a half dozen reports of signal > > > 11s during buildworld over the past 3 days. I have the same problem > > > with my K6-2 system. The hardware has been rock solid for months, but > > > I now can't buildworld without a "signal 11" exactly as has been > > > reported here. Very suspicious, at least. > > This may sound stupid, but have you checked your CPU fan lately? My > primary machine at home (K6/2-300 at the time) ran great for forever, then > very suddenly started doing the sporadic signal 11 thing during "make > world". Turns out the CPU fan had died. It was hard to hear the > difference in a machine with 5 disks in it... :) > > The same board did the same thing when I swapped out SIMMs for DIMMs and > forgot to reset the memory timings in the BIOS back to the defaults for > the new memory. > > > Mike Andrews (MA12) * mandrews@dcr.net * http://www.bit0.com/ > VP, sysadmin, & network guy, Digital Crescent Inc, Frankfort KY > Internet services for Frankfort, Lawrenceburg, Owenton, Shelbyville > www.fark.com: If it's not news, it's Fark. (Or something like that.) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 (voice) Internet: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message