From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 17:54:02 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6289616A4CE; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:54:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mehl.gfz-potsdam.de (mehl.gfz-potsdam.de [139.17.1.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8714C43D5E; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:54:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohartman@uni-mainz.de) Received: from nfw1.gfz-potsdam.de (virscan [139.17.1.10]) by mehl.gfz-potsdam.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id j1SHs0pn026511; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:54:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from ([139.17.145.116]) by nfw1; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:53:58 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <42235AB6.4000209@uni-mainz.de> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:53:58 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE as cvsupdated today won't build, OS crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:54:02 -0000 Sorry, my build world froze this minute, I have no contact to the machine and the scientist, which helped remotely, ist at home, should go for tomorrow ... :-( Robert Watson wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, O. Hartmann wrote: > > >>>>Also, the system is really instable after I build the kernel for itself. >>>>Under heavy load, the machine get stuck and freezes. >>>> >>>>I have no more informations due to remote control of the system. >>> >>>Do you have approximate before/after dates for when the instability began? >>>In particular, was it with an update in the last 48 or 96 hours? >> >>Friday last week I did the last update. Then the machine was shut-down. >>Today morning we started again, and since then (I built a kernel after >>an 11 am cvsupdate and build kernel), the machine is freezing after I >>tried to build world. Maybe this is due to kernel and userland are out >>of sync? I try building a world now again, hope this clears up things >>... > > > Ideally, world and kernel being out of sync shouldn't cause instability of > this sort. Typically, it might result in tools such as ps, top, or maybe > ipfw not working as desired, but not hangs. If you could confirm the last > date you had a kernel that didn't have instability problems, we can try > and track down what change it is between then and now that caused the > problem to arise. > > Robert N M Watson >