From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 15:55:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19716 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 15:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axe.intercall.com (root@axe.intercall.com [206.98.168.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA19671 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 15:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from timpal.intercall.com (ts2-112.intercall.com [207.77.25.112]) by axe.intercall.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA08852 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 18:54:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <324C5B5E.3900@intercall.com> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 18:55:26 -0400 From: Tim Palmer Reply-To: timpal@intercall.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.1.5 and compile problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I installed 2.1.5 recently from the WC CD-ROM and have run into a problem. I can't seem to compile anything. I've tried kernel compiles - both GENERIC and my own - and get signal 10 and sometimes signal 11 errors. I can restart make and it will pick up where it failed, often continueing on, only to fail again. I managed to get through compileing my kernel once after at least 10 of these restarts. The kernel didn't work - "nobody wants to mount my root" but that may be my fault. There seems to be a minor pattern to the signal failures - often at the same places, but not always. I also tried to compile lynx with the same results. From some of the posts I've read, this seems like a memory and/or hardware timeing problem. The machine has Win95, WFW, OS/2 and NT WS 3.51 and they all work fine, although I primarily use Win95. Configuration is: Ocean Ocetek "Rhino 9" mobo (Triton II) Cyrix P166+ 32M EDO 60ns RAM Adaptec 2940 with Seagate ST32550 SCSI-2 Wide HDD Adaptec 1542 w/ Pioneer CD-ROM and Zip drive 3Com 3C590 PCI NIC I'm not a programmer, so compiling is a new thing to me. I understand it works the machine harder than most other activies and may be bringing out an otherwise minor problem. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time Tim Palmer timpal@intercall.com