Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:06:32 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "Chris H." <chris#@1command.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7B4: kernel messages garbled Message-ID: <477B7038.1010804@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080101220902.ku39h3rxcgks8goo@webmail.1command.com> References: <20080101220902.ku39h3rxcgks8goo@webmail.1command.com>
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Chris H. wrote: > Hello, and happy New Year to all! > > I'm hoping to update all our servers to 7 in the near future. > As such, I'm experimenting with it on one of our less prominent > production servers. > My procedure for it's installation and usage: > > download 7-CURRENT disk1 iso (B4) from nearest freebsd mirror > install choice - minimum + src > make config options, reboot > download cvsup-no-gui pkg > cvsup ports + src > (above procedures performed 2007-12-30) > (above procedures again performed on 2007-12-31) > In every case, I wiped the hard drive, performing a fresh install. > > After initial install. Sending a halt, in order to reboot the system > results in garbled messages to the console. Specifically, the > Syncing disks... message is unintelligible. As does is line > preceding it. > > Also. After syncing the source, I altered/renamed GENERIC and > performed build/world/kernel, and install/kernel/world. > During the buildworld process I recieved more warnings than I > can recall seeing in previous versions <= 6. > ee (aee) resulted in "Illegal instruction... core dumped" after > the build/install process. > > FWIW this is on an i386 2 proc MB. > Given the many changes in 7, I spent more time reading the doc's > and errata than I have spent in previous versions. > > Thank you for all your time and attention to this matter. It is just a sign that 7 is getting higher concurrency than 6 did. The warnings are probably from the new compiler (gcc 4) which as usual is more strict and more verbose. Try building ee with -ggdb and running a backtrace. Kris
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