From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 17:19:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA17628 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 17:19:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (pm152-26.dialip.mich.net [198.110.38.36]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA17615 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 17:18:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eyager@localhost) by localhost (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA00325; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 20:18:33 GMT Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 20:18:31 +0000 () From: Eric Yagerlener X-Sender: eyager@localhost To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Config crashes. Kernel will not compile. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a 60 mhz Pentium with a Mercury Chipset. 8 megs of Ram and about 25 Megs worth of swap space. I have FreeBSD version 2.1.0 with the generic kernel. Whenever I try to run config, the program will run maybe 2 or 3 seconds, and then it will exit on signal 11. (Segmentation Fault.) I thought that I might be running low on swap, so I tried booting up into the single user mode and tried again. No change whatsoever occured. (Instead it will call it a Memory Fault.) Some people thought that I didn't have enough swap space period to compile a kernel. I mounted an unused partition on the hard drive for use as swap and that brought the total to 50 megs. Still, it didn't seem to make any difference. I don't know what else could cause trouble. It could be that the chipset is too buggy to do kernel compiles. Turning off all caching didn't seem to cure the problem. Config could be corrupt, but I don't know how to verify that. I did have great difficulty getting hold of and installing the kernel source codes. I may have to try reinstalling them. Could anyone tell me if I'm on the right track? -- Eric