Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:53:58 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@uni-mainz.de> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE as cvsupdated today won't build, OS crashes Message-ID: <42235AB6.4000209@uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050228172109.5974M-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050228172109.5974M-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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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 >
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