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Date:      Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:51:09 -0500
From:      dlr <dlr@insane.asylum.org>
To:        dlr <dlr@insane.asylum.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel compile error
Message-ID:  <19980204125109.57281@insane.asylum.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980202183230.08286@insane.asylum.org>; from dlr on Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 06:32:30PM -0500
References:  <19980201231330.57003@insane.asylum.org> <Pine.SGI.3.96.980203085349.7503B-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> <19980202183230.08286@insane.asylum.org>

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On Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 06:32:30PM -0500, dlr wrote:

> > The last time this started happening to me, it got traced to bad memory
> > chips.
> 
> 
> I put a new cpu in (intel P166) and am getting the same errors. It is now
> intermittant as i have gotten it to compile a few times. I get no errors on
> bootup that there is a bad simm. i have 64meg edo(2x32). It is going to be the
> next thing i change out tonight. 
> 
> This is the new error that i got today
> 
> 
> OSFS -DNFS -DFFS -DINET -DKERNEL  ../../dev/vx/if_vx.c
> cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 6
> *** Error code 1
> 
> It is also not wanting to compile things out of the ports section, which also
> leads me to believe it must be a hardware problem. I've reinstalled Freebsd 4
> times this weekend (2x with 2.2.5 and 2x with 2.2.2). Initially i went with
> 2.2.5 but i'm getting the same thing with all four installs....
> 
> thanks for the tip on the simms....i'll report back when i change them out. I
> tried switching them in the sockets and reseating to no avail.


This did appear to be a bad simm. I changed the memory out and it is working
fine now. I put the "bad" memory into a windoz box, that way when it crashes i
can just blame windoz.

dave




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