From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 13:57:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA05816A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:57:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE28A43D1F for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:57:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (qmail 23126 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2005 13:57:48 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Jan 2005 13:57:48 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 95BE044; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:57:47 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Rick Updegrove References: <41E36760.2090609@updegrove.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Jan 2005 08:57:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <41E36760.2090609@updegrove.net> Message-ID: <44fz18m5k4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 67 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE crashes during make buildworld (and other problems) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:57:49 -0000 Rick Updegrove writes: > This machine runs 4.11-STABLE just fine. I can make buildworld all day. > Before that it ran Win2k for many months with no problems. For these > reasons, I do not suspect hardware at this point. > > When I install 5.3-RELEASE it runs fine until... > > When I attempt to cvsup to STABLE and run make buildworld (yes with and > without the -j) it crashes. > > I am very bad at kernel debugging because FreeBSD 4 has (almost) > always been perfectly stable so I have read and re-read the handbook > and I am trying to get more information to the list. > > So far in rc.conf I added: > > dumpdev="/dev/ad0s1b" > DUMPDIR="/usr/crash" That should be "dumpdir", not "DUMPDIR". The default would be /var/crash instead of /usr/crash. Also, /dev/ad0s1b has to be bigger than your RAM size. > Then I > chmod 700 /usr/crash > > Then in /boot/loader.conf I added > > verbose_loading="YES" > boot_verbose="YES" > > Does this look reasonable? Pretty much. > What else should I do? You can try to analyze the panic messages themselves. There is some guidance for this in the FAQ. > Meanwhile, I started the make buildworld again (right where it left off) > and I am waiting for it to crash. > > You can find the dmesg and anything else I find at > http://rick.updegrove.net/FreeBSD/jan-10-2005/ > > *UPDATE* > While I was writing this the make buildworld failed and left me some > details which I put into a file named gcc-error-1 file at > http://rick.updegrove.net/FreeBSD/jan-10-2005/gcc-error-1 Hardware problems would be my first suspicion here. If you try it again, does it fail in the same place? > Then I rebooted and went into X and soon I got > http://rick.updegrove.net/FreeBSD/jan-10-2005/panic_kdeinit.txt > > There is nothing in /usr/crash/ > > I cant find any files name vmcore anywhere. > > I noticed that on the new 5.3-RELEASE SYSTEM if I do not have a > half-failed "make buildworld" I can install packages with pkg_add -r > whatever all day long and the machine (and KDE) runs fine. There shouldn't be any relationship between the two...