From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Mar 6 13:20: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92FC15031 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:19:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08850; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 21:19:14 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 21:19:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Dmitrij Tejblum Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird problems In-Reply-To: <199903061808.VAA03025@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > Yesterday I installed FreeBSD (19990206-SNAP) on an alpha, and having some > really confusing problems with it. > > rm(1) behave buggy. It is sometimes works, sometimes die with > 'segmentation fault', sometimes die with 'illegal instruction', and > sometimes fail with 'rm: No such file or directory' (without a file > name). Every other program, including the compiler, seems works correct, > (I built a couple of ports), so I don't think it is a hardware problem > like 'bad memory' :-|. > > Any idea? I've not heard of this before. It smells like a VM problem but its strange that only one program is affected. Does this happen every time you reboot (maybe stale contents in the cache)? What if you rebuild rm from sources? Have you been able to build a world with this machine? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message