Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 17:22:31 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: Jason Vance <jason@theyhost.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE source update fails during compilation Message-ID: <20070408222231.GC8935@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <000301c7799f$1c2cd690$6800a8c0@vancetech.com> References: <000301c7799f$1c2cd690$6800a8c0@vancetech.com>
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Jason Vance wrote: > I'm unable to buildworld on a brand new installation of freebsd 6.1. Almost > everytime my build fails on the genattrtab.c section of cc_tools. I've tried > multiple harddrives, and downloaded the source code many times. A couple of > times the system has rebooted itself, once during cvsup of the source code, and > again during a build. > > What else should I be looking for to diagnose this problem? > > My System: > > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE > 733MHZ Intel P3 > Asus pv3-4x latest bios 1006.004 > Sound Blaster Live > Voodoo 3 16mb GFX Card > HDDs: I've tried 3 different drives, the first few tries were with 2 drives > gmirror'd and then without the gmirror ( RAID 1 ) > > Memtest checks out ok ( Ran 5 hours 150 loops ) > > Here is the last few lines of everytime I've tried to compile the source. > Failures likes these are almost always hardware related. If it was a software problem it would die at the same place every time. You could be suffering from overheating, bad ram (regardless of what memtest tells you) power fluctuations due to a faulty PSU, or any other number of esoteric problems. FreeBSD has this knack of not playing nicely with partially broken hardware. :) Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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