From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 25 19:50:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA28352 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 May 1996 19:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA28344 for ; Sat, 25 May 1996 19:50:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA22807; Sat, 25 May 1996 20:50:30 -0600 Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 20:50:30 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199605260250.UAA22807@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Carey Nairn Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Arrg!! sig 11 In-Reply-To: References: <199605260239.UAA22775@rocky.sri.MT.net> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Carey Nairn writes: [ Signal 11's ] > > I suspect dodgy hardware. It shouldn't matter if the upgrade was done > > (assuming the upgrade was done correctly ala. 'make world'). If the > > latter was done, then *all* the system binaries except the kernel were > > updated, and I assumed you also upgraded the kernel. > > The upgrade was done as a binary only upgrade using the upgrade from > 2.0.5 option in the installation menu (I didn't have enough space to hold > the entire 2.1 source for a make world). > > If its dodgy hardware do you have any hints as to what I should look > for? The system seems to work OK for most general work, but just has > these random failures when compiling... Try disabling the L2 cache and see if they go away. If so, then you know. > FYI its a pentium 100, 16MB RAM (70ns.. I guess this may be a problem) > 2 WD IDE disks, 1 IDE CDROM, Diamond Stealth S3 868 DRAM PCI card... At least on some motherboards, to run a 100Mhz Pentium *requires* 60ns parts. Nate