Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 16:32:15 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net> Subject: Re: Is portsdb -U broken again? Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030602162946.00a3aec0@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <20030602083225.GB1394@moo.holy.cow> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030602144124.009fb6e0@127.0.0.1> <5.2.0.9.0.20030602144124.009fb6e0@127.0.0.1>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 03:32 PM 6/2/03, you wrote: >in message <5.2.0.9.0.20030602144124.009fb6e0@127.0.0.1>, >wrote Roger Merritt thusly... > > > > 'portsdb -U' ... runs about forty minutes to an hour, reports > > a couple of errors (telling me "" does not exist and the packing > > list is incomplete), and then reboots with "Signal 12, Page Fault > > in Kernel Mode (page not found)". > > > > The same thing happens when I try to run 'make index', but I can > > run 'portsdb -u' and 'pkgdb -F' ok. > >Consider that index making (or "make describe") is CPU & disk >intensive work; 'portsdb -u' and 'pkgdb -F' are nothing in >comparison. > >Hardware problems perhaps? Could very well be, it's a pretty old machine, but I just had a chance to run the Seagate utility on the hard drive and found no problems. Could be flaky memory chips, I suppose. If no one else has been having any more than the usual problems it probably is hardware. -- Roger
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5.2.0.9.0.20030602162946.00a3aec0>