Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:13:39 +0000 From: Angie Ahl <angie@alphabox.net> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 problems on AMD64 Athlon 3800 - crashes from day 1 Message-ID: <7D5DF2D8-24F4-4582-90F3-3CEFE01E9A8E@alphabox.net> In-Reply-To: <20061102190204.GA95330@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1B6DFE5B-A4D4-48B8-AD72-4256A2462804@alphabox.net> <20061102190204.GA95330@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 2 Nov 2006, at 19:02, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 05:40:14PM +0000, Angie Ahl wrote: > >> They're bundling DirectAdmin with the servers and it doesn't run in >> 64 bit mode so they've set the machines up in 32 bit mode. From day 1 >> it's been crashing. First it was some dodgy ram, after that was >> sorted we still had crashes so they changed the mother board. They've >> tried Asus and and Asrock and for a while today it looked OK. >> >> Then suddenly I was getting complaints when trying to install >> ports. eg: >> >> checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp >> configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check > > If /lib/cpp exists then it doesn't come from FreeBSD :-) that threw me for a while... it doesn't exist. that seems to be a linux thing. it's actually in /usr/bin/cpp (I think, can't check, dead box ;) but restarting let it compile fine so I guess it looked in the right place after the restart. Don't ask me to explain that I really couldn't. I wonder if they changed the motherboard and accidentally put the bad ram back in because that's was what was happening with the bad ram ;) Angie
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