From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 17:23:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E5416A41F for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:23:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crispy.beef@ntlworld.com) Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5B343D6B for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:23:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crispy.beef@ntlworld.com) Received: from aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060104172319.BWVR8609.mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:23:19 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.10] (really [82.12.81.129]) by aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060104172319.WLCH29634.aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@[192.168.0.10]>; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:23:19 +0000 Message-ID: <43BC0484.9020502@ntlworld.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:23:16 +0000 From: Crispy Beef User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton References: <43B951B4.1060601@ntlworld.com> <20060102184137.GI7533@osiris.chen.org.nz> <43BA9432.6090409@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Compilation... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:23:49 -0000 Nikolas Britton wrote: > To rule out hardware problems rebuild the generic kernel using the > virgin GENERIC kernel config file: > > 0. If you've messed with /etc/make.conf change it back to the defaults! > 1. su > 2. cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > 3. rm -r ../compile/GENERIC > 4. config GENERIC > 5. cd ../compile/GENERIC > 6. make depend > 7. make > 8. make install > 9. reboot > > If you can't get to step 8 you have a hardware problem (or FreeBSD > wasn't installed correctly, see step 5 below): First time I tried this I had another seg fault (error 11) so did a complete install from the CD again (kernel developer options). It failed once during that compile, then the second time it worked just fine. I then did my own config cutting out all the stuff I don't need and it's compiled just fine. Strange... Thinking about it, this is the only time I've got the sources from the CD. I always grabbed them from an ftpe server via sysinstall, maybe the newer sources were causing problems like the guys mentioned earlier? Got a version of MemTest86 running too and that went for a couple of hours without any errors showing up, will run it overnight to be sure. I guess the next thing is to have a go at make buildworld with options in make.conf and see if it barfs then. Thanks for the help. :-) Paul