From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Sep 20 16:46:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from charon.khoral.com (charon.khoral.com [209.75.155.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31C7F37B423; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:46:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zen.alb.khoral.com by charon.khoral.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 20 Sep 2000 23:46:18 UT Received: from benson (benson.alb.khoral.com [10.1.2.11]) by zen.alb.khoral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01996; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:46:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Steve Jorgensen Message-Id: <200009202345.RAA29210@benson> Subject: Re: Whats is this? FBSD 4.1 isn't stable! To: ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (O. Hartmann) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:45:42 -0600 (MDT) Cc: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "O. Hartmann" at Sep 20, 2000 11:08:03 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org O. Hartmann wrote >> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> Well, sorry, but this is not that kind of doing science by laying hands >> onto something and say: well - its this kind of symptome! >> >> We develop here equipment for airborne measurement facilities for >> meteorological science and the way we stress things makes me sure, over >> the time, that a system, which has been stressed much more under much more >> bad conditions do not fail in a phase of been not stressed that hard. >> >> Maybe you're right and I caught some kind of "hardware failure", but >> surely not that kind of failure that we expect due to "overheating" the >> CPUs. The machine here in front of me is much better air conditioned thatn >> other systems I stressed. One of the earlier emails said you ran into a problem while doing a "make world". If you were doing a make world, it was replacing binaries as it compiled. So, if it isn't a hardware problem as the others have suggested, my guess is you replaced enough of your binaries to really hose the OS. That's why it's a really good idea to do the 'make buildworld' and 'make installworld' sequence separately, so you know if it's going to build BEFORE you start replacing your working operating system. All I can suggest is going back to your 4.1 CD and reinstalling that, and then trying the the cvsup, make buildworld, make installworld sequence again. You could also look at which files were replaced in your installed system, but that would take a long time.. :) Anyway, I hope this helps. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@spukhaus.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6200 Uptown Blvd, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message