From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 13:47:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26840 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:47:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26654; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:46:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA29412; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:46:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:46:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: dpetrou@cs.cmu.edu cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Buildworld troubles... In-Reply-To: <199808050305.XAA01693@auchroisk.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, David Petrou wrote: > I've been having strange problems while trying to do a 'make > buildworld'. I've done this successfully on another system, so I > believe I may be experiencing hardware problems. I though I'd ask you > guys to see if perhaps these problems are not hardware related and to > see what I should do. > > I use cvsup to keep my tree up-to-date with stable. I last cvsup'd > earlier today and then tried to buildworld. Before doing this I > cleaned out /usr/obj. The first time through the build ended with: > [and hanging] Sounds like a flakey disk or system. Check your hard drive when it hangs, and the system log for disk errors. Also verify that your SIMMS are good; if stuff dies randomly with Sig11 errors then you need to get your RAM replaced. Make worlds make great system testers ;) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message