From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 21 23:38:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA15260 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:38:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA15234 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00325; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:38:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:38:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: C Matthew Curtin cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting strange SIGBUS errors In-Reply-To: <199609212237.SAA01143@goffette.research.megasoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, C Matthew Curtin wrote: > > I'm having some problems with a new FreeBSD server-type machine. I've > installed from the 2.1.5-R CD. I'm not new to Unix, but I have very > little experience with the joys of braindead PC hardware. (I'm used to > SPARC- and MIPS-based workstations.) > > When attempting to build a kernel, (even GENERIC), it will usually > terminate with bus error. Occasionally, it'll report a segmentation > violation. Occasionally, it will compile, but it seems that as soon as > it barfs on a compile, it won't be able to build anything until after > boot time. Hm. Sounds like bad memory or processor cache. Can you build anything else successfully? Do programs spontaneously crash with bus errors (sig 10) or segmentation faults (sig 11), especially under heavy load? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major