From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 19 8:25: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C887F37B40C for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:24:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 24178 invoked by uid 1002); 19 Oct 2001 15:24:28 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:24:28 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compiling 4.4-STABLE Message-ID: <20011019172427.J7347@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3BD186A7.3020808@delaware.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BD186A7.3020808@delaware.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:13:59AM -0400, j. rivera wrote: > Hello, > > I've been fighting with my machine now for about three days, but I'm not > sure what to make of my situation, and any advice would be appreciated. > Here's the situation-- > > The machine: > 133 mhz Pentium > 64 MB memory > 6 GB WD hard drive > > My problem: > I was running 4.3-RELEASE just fine. I decided to upgrade to > 4.4-RELEASE, hosed my machine, so I reinstalled 4.4 fresh. I've now been > trying to compile 4.4-STABLE, but with no luck. > > I get all sorts of weirdness when I try to compile STABLE. The compiler > segmentation faults and dumps core. Perl dumped core trying to recompile > the kernel. Every so often during make buildworld, the machine > arbitrarily reboots. > > My first inclination is that it might possibly be hardware, but what > makes me think this isn't true is that 4.3 ran fine (no problems > compiling anything). Maybe you could reinstall 4.3-RELEASE again, temporarily, to test if that works stable? If it does not, you broke your hardware while reinstalling 4.4-REL, else, there's prolly something wrong with the software. > > If anyone else has had this problem or can provide some thoughts as to > what might be causing this problem, please let me know. If any further > info is needed, I'd be happy to provide the error messages, etc. > Thanks. If the whole system is unstable, error messages usually don't help much, you can see all kind of funny messages. -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: alson@flutnet.org < > School: alson@gymnasiumleiden.nl < `-------------------------------------------' What do you mean that wasn't a copy? --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message