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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2003 06:01:57 -0500
From:      "Paul A. Howes" <freebsd-current@fair-ware.com>
To:        <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "'John Hay'" <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
Subject:   RE: cc: Internal error: Illegal instruction (program as)
Message-ID:  <003c01c2dbf4$27993390$0200a8c0@howesnet>
In-Reply-To: <20030222180518.GA29539@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>

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All;

These two kernel options seem to have solved the problem.  Builds now
run smoothly and error-free.  I read the comments in NOTES about these
options and something clicked:  I recall that most Pentium processors
will only deal with 4 kB pages.  Aren't 4 MB pages a feature of the Xeon
processor, as it can address much more memory?

If that is the case, then these options should be the default, and their
inverse provided in the kernel configuration file (ENABLE_PSE &
ENABLE_PG_G).

--
Paul A. Howes


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of John Hay
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:05 PM
To: Paul A. Howes
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cc: Internal error: Illegal instruction (program as)


On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:43:01AM -0500, Paul A. Howes wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am receiving some strange errors during a buildworld of
5.0-RELEASE-p2
> from 5.0-RELEASE-p1.  The location of where the failure varies, but
the
> program that causes the failure is the same every time:  "as".
> 
> The errors are a variety of signal 10 and signal 4.  I do find an
> "as.core" file under /usr/obj, but as is stripped, so there are no
> debugging symbols or listing that I can provide.
> 
> The strange thing is that I have been able to successfully build
> XFree86, KDE, and many other ports on this system.  I followed the
> 4.x-to-5.0 upgrade directions to the letter about a month ago, and
have
> had no major problems before this.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> --
> Paul A. Howes
> 
> 
> ========
> 
> Hardware
> 
> Tyan S2099GNNR motherboard
> Intel P4-2.4/533
> Crucial 512 MB PC2100 DIMM
> Maxtor 20 GB hard drive.
> 
> ========

I see it is a P4, try adding options DISABLE_PSE and DISABLE_PG_G to
your kernel. My 1.8G P4 do the same without them.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org

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