From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 22:06:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA08369 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA08311 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:06:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA00737 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:35:48 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id OAA07451 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:35:48 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980911141653.J611@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:16:54 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Tony Dunn-Lowes , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Multiple crashes (was: cc: Internal compiler error URGENT) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Tony Dunn-Lowes on Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 04:12:00AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 11 September 1998 at 4:12:00 +0100, Tony Dunn-Lowes wrote: > HELP > > 1. > > I have just nuked my 2.2.5 system and reinstalled with 2.2.7 -RELEASE > only to find that nearly every time I attempt to compile an application > or upgrade I get ... > > cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 > > ... or similar. > > 2. > > Also... if several "ls -la" commands are executed in succession then you > would get an error and core dump. > > 3. > > And... If a terminal screen is left for a few minutes (without activity) > it will result in a disconnection (without warning) > > I have tried disabling the CPU cache (which has seemed to improve > problem 2) but it hasn't solved the problems. I have also replaced the > RAM. > > Machine Profile ... 32MB RAM, P133, Diamond Stealth 2000, SpeedEasy QDI > Motherboard. > > I have heard that this set of problems could be due to the CPU type. Is > this true ? If your 2.2.5 system was working OK, this is really unusual. Yes, it does point to some kind of hardware problem, but it's not usually due to your CPU. Also, the P5/133 isn't exactly the most uncommon CPU. I have two of them here running quite happily. You wouldn't have changed your motherboard or memory recently, would you? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message