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replying to my own post:  I just got 2 new PIII 1GHz (256k cache) 
processors (in the retail box), installed them and it built fine the first
try. this is after about a dozen consecutive failures trying either or
both PIII 600 (512k cache) OEM processors.

Weird...

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 up@3.am wrote:

> 
> Trying to shake out the (apparently many) hardware bugs from the latest
> server I built, I did several 'make world's to stress test it.  They were
> successful the first couple of times, but on the third try, it locked the
> server up completely.
> 
> After a cold reboot, it came up fine, but now, every time I try to do a
> 'make world', I get:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> obj-elf.o: In function `obj_elf_popsection':
> obj-elf.o(.text+0xfc1): undefined reference to `section_stack'
> obj-elf.o(.text+0xfdb): undefined reference to `section_stack'
> obj-elf.o(.text+0xfe3): undefined reference to `previous_section'
> obj-elf.o(.text+0xfeb): undefined reference to `previous_subsection'
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as/i386-freebsd.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> I tried a 'make clean', then even did a cvsup of the latest -stable
> branch, even rebuilt the kernel, but the same thing keeps happening.  I'm
> getting new CPUs (apparently I had *2* new, defective PIII 600s) in a
> couple of days (already swapped out the motherboard-L440GX), and if need
> be, I'll just start over from scratch, but I'm curious as to why this
> won't work...
> 
> TIA,
> 
> James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
> up@3.am							    http://3.am
> =========================================================================
> 
> 

James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up@3.am							    http://3.am
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