From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 11:06:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA23262 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:06:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.220]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA23234 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:06:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00424; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:06:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jason Parsons cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports collection error? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Jason Parsons wrote: > Hello. I am running FreeBSD 2.1.5 from the Walnut Creek CDROM. There > seems to be a problem with the ports collection. I su to root and mount > the CD drive, go to the directory of the port I want to install (most > recently was /usr/ports/emulators/wine/) and type make install. The > installation process starts. When it gets down near the end, it says > something like "installing for programname". Then my computer restarts > itself. Is there a bug in cc or in the makefiles somewhere? Or is this > a problem with some setup? I have no idea where to even start. Thanks > for any insight. It depends on what happens when it starts the install. I haven't installed this port so I don't know if it's trying to start wine or what. It's possible that you have some defective RAM that starting the wine install happens to find. That is a busy part of the install and it may be working some piece of hardware the wrong way (RAM or processor cache). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major