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Date:      Mon, 2 Feb 1998 22:36:04 +1030 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   current problems - false alarm?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.90.980202220647.13185A-100000@bragg>

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After a recent cvsup back to dec 23 (the "last stable current" before 
John's recent fixes to the problems of early January), my problems with 
spurious sig-11s remained - the last time I ran this era kernel 
everything was fine. So basically this is what has happened to my system 
in the past month or so:

pre-dec 23, everything fine.
post-dec 23, imake SIGBUSes, etc
cvsupped back to dec 23, problems solved
mailing list indicated -current problems may be fixed, I cvsup back to 
latest tree, suffer spontaneous coredumps, compilation failures, etc.
cvsup back to dec 23, problems remain.

What I didnt mention earlier (deliberately - to avoid charges of "ah, 
well, thats /obviously/ your problem then" - I only spoke up after others 
had reported the same phenomenon :) was that I was running an 
overclocked P120 at 133. At about the time I cvsupped back to the latest 
tree, we were going through the height of summer (and still are, for that 
matter :)

I'm guessing the poor motherboard didnt like living in temperatures of 
30C as it sometimes is here in my non-airconditioned computer room :/ (I 
hadnt had any problems at all in the months before summer when I was running at 
this speed). I dropped back to 120, and the dec 23 sources 
compiled fine (did a complete make world; before it couldnt even finish 
compiling gcc). I'm now in the process of make worlding the latest 
source tree, but I suspect my problems might be fixed for now.

John: sorry to have caused any unnecessary frustration - I guess you can 
cross this data point off your list. Out of interest, I wonder if any of 
the other problem systems were overclocked and/or in the southern 
hemisphere? :-)

Kris

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