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Date:      Sat, 13 Apr 1996 21:18:00 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can someone explain why... 
Message-ID:  <199604140418.VAA03036@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Apr 1996 18:39:37 EDT." <Pine.BSI.3.92.960413183510.4757R-100000@freebsd.ki.net> 

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>...I get these occasionally while attempting to compile a kernel:
>
>freebsd# make
>cc -c -O -W -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wredundant-decls -Wimplicit  -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes  -Winline -g -nostdinc -I. -I../.. -I../../sys -I../../../include -DI486_CPU -DCOMPAT_43 -DDEVFS -DNFS -DFFS -DINET -DDODUMP -DKERN
>EL  ../../kern/subr_xxx.c
>cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 10
>*** Error code 1

   Seemingly random signal 10 and 11s almost always indicates a hardware
problem. It's usually a problem with memory or the secondary cache, but has
also been known to be caused by flakey disk controllers, motherboards, and
CPUs. I don't think this is disk controller related because you are also
having weird kernel panics in areas where I know no bugs exist. Several years
ago we had some VM system problems which would sometimes cause similar
behavior, but the causes of these problems are well understood and have been
fixed for years.
   The only way to troubleshoot this kind of problem is to first look at your
motherboard settings for correctness and then start replacing components until
the problem goes away. I would try changing the memory first.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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